Elcie, an elderly care companion robot
Personal robots have been around for a while but have had problems taking off due to their hefty price tags. Affordability of processors like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino opened up the possibility of mass market personal companion robots for the elderly which may tackle these problems. However, what...
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| author | Chang, Crystal Xuan Li |
| author2 | Oh Hong Lye |
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| description | Personal robots have been around for a while but have had problems taking off due to their hefty price tags. Affordability of processors like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino opened up the possibility of mass market personal companion robots for the elderly which may tackle these problems. However, what we need to consider when designing such a system would be to balance the robustness of the software solutions with the computational abilities of these processors.
The proposed system is El-C (from Elderly Companion), stylised as Elcie, an elderly companion robot. Elcie is optimised for its hardware and multi-pronged with:
• Elderly tracking based on Haar cascade and DLib-based facial recognition tracking,
• Social hub feature allowing elderly to interact with IOT and internet chat messenger Telegram
• through intuitive speech and Quick Response (QR) codes as the user interface (UI). |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/769482023-03-03T20:34:13Z Elcie, an elderly care companion robot Chang, Crystal Xuan Li Oh Hong Lye School of Computer Science and Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering Personal robots have been around for a while but have had problems taking off due to their hefty price tags. Affordability of processors like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino opened up the possibility of mass market personal companion robots for the elderly which may tackle these problems. However, what we need to consider when designing such a system would be to balance the robustness of the software solutions with the computational abilities of these processors. The proposed system is El-C (from Elderly Companion), stylised as Elcie, an elderly companion robot. Elcie is optimised for its hardware and multi-pronged with: • Elderly tracking based on Haar cascade and DLib-based facial recognition tracking, • Social hub feature allowing elderly to interact with IOT and internet chat messenger Telegram • through intuitive speech and Quick Response (QR) codes as the user interface (UI). Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) 2019-04-25T06:57:48Z 2019-04-25T06:57:48Z 2019 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76948 en Nanyang Technological University 96 p. application/pdf |
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