ALIAS
Overview
| Title: | AdaptabLe AmbIent Living ASsistent |
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| Duration: | 01.07.2010 - 30.06.2013 |
| Funding: | EC - European Commission BMBF - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung TMBWK - Freistaat Thüringen - Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur |
| Teilprojekt SENSIBEL: HäuSlichE Navigation im SozIalen Kontext Betreuungsbedürftiger BEwohner im aLtersgerechten Umfeld Teilprojekt POLITE: AdaPtiOn von Navigationsstrategien mobiler Roboter im häusLIchen Umfeld bezüglich alTErsgerechter Nutzermotivation | |
| Project Partner: | TU München, Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation (Coordinator) |
| Associated Partners: | see here |
| Project Manager: | Prof. Dr. Horst-Michael Groß |
| Staff: | Dipl.-Inf. Jens Keßler |
| Project Homepage: | http://www.aal-alias.eu/ |
Description
The ALIAS project aims at developing a mobile robot system that interacts with elderly, alone-living users providing assistance in daily life and promoting social inclusion by creating connections to other people and events in the wider world. The function of ALIAS is not to replace human-to-human contacts, but rather, to keep the user linked to the wide society. This way ALIAS will try to reduce loneliness and improve the users' quality of life. For maintaining memory and reminding capabilities of the elderly, the robot is to individually motivate its users to periodically carry out cognitive training exercises. Partner Ilmenau University of Technology will contribute to the ALIAS project by developing new approaches to a socially acceptable navigation behavior allowing the assistive robot to move courteously and politely in the home environment in order to reduce resentments and increase the users' acceptance to autonomous mobile robots.
Publications
2012
Kessler, J., Iser, D., Gross, H.-M.
I'll Keep You in Sight: Finding a Good Position to Observe a Person.
in: Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012), Vilamoura, Portugal, pp. 4392-4398, IEEE 2012 (nominated for CoTeSys Best-paper Award) 
Kessler, J., Strobel, J., Gross, H.-M.
Using a Spatio-Temporal FastMarching Planner to Politely Avoid Moving Persons.
in: Proc. Autonomous Mobile Systems (AMS 2012), Stuttgart, Germany, Informatik aktuell, pp. 59-67, Springer Verlag 2012 
Kessler, J., Strobel, J., Gross, H.-M.
Avoiding Moving Persons by Using Simple Trajectory Prediction and Spatio Temporal Planning.
in: Proc. 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2012), Saarbrücken, Germany, LNCS 7526, pp. 85-96, Springer 2012 
2011
Kessler, J., Schröter, Ch., Gross, H.-M.
Approaching a Person in a Socially Acceptable Manner Using a Fast Marching planner.
in: Proc. 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011), Aachen, Germany, pp. 368-377, Springer 2011 
Kessler, J., Scheidig, A., Gross, H.-M.
Approaching a Person in a Socially Acceptable Manner Using Expanding Random Trees.
in: Proc. 5th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2011), Orebro, Sweden, pp. 95-100 