Service Robot for Care

1. Service Robot for Care Kees van Hee Gesubsidieerd door het Ministerie van Economische Zaken en de Provincie Noord-Brabant

2. Manipulation devices processor master Feedback devices Teleoperated Service robots • Two components: master = cockpit and slave = service robot • Goal: service robot can perform all human manual actions, at least at any place a human can do it • The (human) operator may overrule the control completely internet

3. Tele-operations • Ultimate form of remote control • Manual actions over a great distance • Extending human manual reach at world scale • Uncouple the place of action from the place where the action is devised Compare it with electricity: the place where it is produced is uncoupled from the place where it is consumed Therefore: Teleoperations is a new Industrial Revolution!

4. Examples of teleoperations

5. What service robots can do more… • Service robots can do more than a human: • Moving with more power • Moving with different speed • Moving over greater distance • Moving with more precision • They can multiply actions • They can work at place a human does not want to be • We can program them for special tasks (more autonomy) • They can learn from example actions (learning by doing)

6. Service vs industrial robots Service Industrial Programmed tasks Only routine tasks High speed High precision Controlled by position Static or moving over fixed rail Industrial environment (safety cage) • Arbitrary tasks • Non routine tasks • Relatively slowly • Moderate accuracy • Visual servoing, haptic feedback • Navigation • Acting safely in a human environment

7. Application domains

8. Why Service Robots in Home-care? • Cost of care is increasing dramatically • In a few years there will be more new jobs needed in (home) care than new employees entering the labour market • Care clients want to live at home longer • Care clients want to keep there independence and privacy

9. Care from a distance (current situation) 9 Video communication to support people at home Fall detection Alarming, signaling Only information exchange; No physical intervention at the client site Mextal, Marcel Gielen

10. TSR Project • Goal: tobuild a demonstratortele-operatedrobot for home care en performexperiments in a home environment • Budget: 2.7 milion Euro • Duration: October 2009 until Juni 2012 • Subsidienten: Dutch Ministry of EconomicAffairs & Province Noord-Brabant • 11 partners: 7 MSE, 3 research, 1 care organization

11. Setup 11

12. Daily Life Activities

13. Use Cases Turning on the light Opening Doors Personal Alarm Heating a Pre-cooked Meal Pouring Drinks Bringing Breakfast Items 13

14. Iterations Phase 0 Phase 1 Phase 2 14

15. Rose 0: March 2010 • Goal: Proof of concept • First controlexperiences: • Tograbsomethingmanually is difficult • Perceiving Depth is difficult • A wheelchair is too big and heavy forautonomousnavigation in home

16. Rose 1: March 2011 • Goal: The first workable demonstrator • First experiments with home-care employees and control from a distance • Enthousiastic Operators • First automated Tasks: Grab - Place • Task space needs to be increased • Two wheel drive is not manouvrable enough • Development in home environment is an enormous boost

17. Rose 2 (Rose): March 2012 • Goal: A new robot based on previous experiences • Experiments in home, with home-care employees and clients • Enthousiastic clients • More autonomy, towards useful applications • Concept fully operational

19. Challenges (1/2) User perspective Technology perspective Navigation while carying objects Visual servoing Object recognition (from database) • Human-MachineInteraction • Socialbehavior • Safety and reliability • Cost-effectiveness 19

20. Challenges (2/2) • Self-learning system: programming-by-exampled • Haptic feedback • Software architecture: plug and play

21. New use cases (1/2) Contact with Care Center and relatives Memory support Serarch, get and bring Emergeny support

22. New use cases (2/2) Shaving support Preparing a simple meal Dish wasser loading Table cleaning

23. TSR as household assistant • Many applications: e.g. • Feeding the cat when you are at work • Watering the plants in your holiday home • Same technology! • ´A robot in every household´ (Bill Gates)

24. Market for care robots • 2.2 M people over 65 in Netherlands • 10% is a potential TSR user: 220.000 • 5% willreallyuseit: 11.000 • Lifecycle: 5 year • Yearlyreplacement: 2.200 stuks • Price per robot: 20.000€ • Market: 44 M€ per year only the Netherlands!

25. Business Case (1/2) Three alternatives: • Rose 24.7 + professional care 2 hr p. day • Permanent care+ professional care 1hr p. day • In elderly home Yearly cost: • 58K • 270K • 70K

26. Business Case (2/2) • Rose with continuous operator assistance: € 29K (€ 6K robot, €23K shared operator(1/15)) • Professional care 1hr p. day: € 14,6K (€ 40 p. hr) • Break even: 3 hr p. day prof. help = continuous robot assistance alternative 1: 6K+23K+29K= 58K

27. Economical impact • Roll out in other countries • Expanding to other application domains • Creation of a new industry, using existing suppliers • New services: consultancy and taylor-made software • Challenges for existing industries: teleoperations

28. Other Domains • Care institutions • Holiday homes • Office Environment • Maintenance Complex installations • Clean-rooms • Security

29. THANK YOU Gesubsidieerd door het Ministerie van Economische Zaken en de Provincie Noord-Brabant

30. Rose 1 Autonomous in Waalre

31. Rose 1 from the Care Center In Veldhoven, at 15km distance

32. Rose 1: Handover and Opening a Bottle