Abstract
The ultimate goal of ambient assisted living is to help elderly people live a healthy life in the convenience of their homes by making more intelligent technology bring them a set of required assistive tools. In this paper we describe a robotic fitness coach that helps elderly people in their daily exercise activities. The robotic fitness coach learns a set of physical exercises from a professional trainer, and assists elderly subjects in performing these gestures. The gestures were selected from an actual training programme at an elderly care home in order to create a real world scenario.We optimize a function that combines robot stability and appearance similarity in order to find the best mapping from the trainers gesture, observed by an RGB-D camera, to the gesture performed by the robot to solve the mapping problem between human and robot which stems from the embodiment differences.
| Translated title of the contribution | Gesture imitation for a robotic fitness coach |
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| Original language | Turkish |
| Title of host publication | 2013 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2013 |
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| Publication status | Published - 5 Aug 2013 |
| Event | 2013 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2013 - Haspolat, Turkey Duration: 24 Apr 2013 → 26 Apr 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | 2013 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SIU 2013 |
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| Country/Territory | Turkey |
| City | Haspolat |
| Period | 24/04/13 → 26/04/13 |
Keywords
- Ambient assisted living environments for elderly
- Imitation learning
- Robotics