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Integrating a Humanoid Robot into ECHONET-Based Smart Home Environments

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This paper presents a novel approach to integrating a humanoid robot into the ECHONET-based smart home environment toward the use of elder-care robots therein. We envision a socially assistive humanoid robot companion as a smart care home interface that will support independent living of the disabled and elderly. Especially, universAAL, which is an open platform for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solution, is employed to connect components in the proposed software framework. The ECHONET-based smart home environment, iHouse, with the extended AAL solution provides an efficient way to improve the quality of life of smart home residents. We have confirmed that a humanoid robot companion can gain access to the iHouse network and provide user-requested data and services through verbal interaction with the support of a natural language processing tool.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the Horizon 2020 EU-Japan coordinated R&D project on “Culture Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor System for Elderly Support” commissioned by the European Commission and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan.

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  1. School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, 923-1211, Japan

    Ha-Duong Bui, Cu Pham, Yuto Lim, Yasuo Tan & Nak Young Chong

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  1. CNRS-AIST JRL, Tsukuba, Japan

    Abderrahmane Kheddar

  2. CNRS-AIST JRL, Tsukuba, Japan

    Eiichi Yoshida

  3. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  4. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

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  5. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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  6. CITEC, Bielefeld, Germany

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    Hongsheng He

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Bui, HD., Pham, C., Lim, Y., Tan, Y., Chong, N.Y. (2017). Integrating a Humanoid Robot into ECHONET-Based Smart Home Environments. In: Kheddar, A., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10652. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_31

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