Low Cost Robotic Furniture Module for Micro-Apartments

2009

Abstract. According to a recent trend, robotic technologies will be included into domestic environments in the form of simple, networked robotic devices able to cooperate in the performance of tasks. These devices may take the form of smart appliances, distributed sensors, or robotic furniture. In this paper, we describe the design of an autonomous robotic table and its inclusion in a smart environment, the PEIS Ecology. The design takes into account the constraints posed by the domestic environment. The robotic table can perform ...

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2017

IntelliTable is a new proof-of-principle assistive technology system with robotic capabilities in the form of an elegant universal cantilever table able to move around by itself, or under user control. We describe the design and current capabilities of the table and the human-centered design methodology used in its development and initial evaluation. The IntelliTable study has delivered robotic platform programmed by a smartphone that can navigate around a typical home or care environment, avoiding obstacles, and positioning itself at the user's command. It can also be configured to navigate itself to pre-ordained places positions within an environment using ceiling tracking, responsive optical guidance and object-based sonar navigation.

International Journal of Machine Learning and Networked Collaborative Engineering

In this paper, we discuss home automation IoT based and we show three projects about IoT. IoT or internet of things is an upcoming innovation which is an arrangement of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and computerized machines, articles, creatures or individuals that are given one kind of identifiers and the capacity to exchange information over a system without expecting human-to-human or human-to-PC association. It's an achievement though it will change our whole world. New Horizons will begin in our lives by this. The premise of this research was to diminish the anguish of human. IoT based home mechanization can make the life an excessive amount of less demanding. In this research, we will attempt to interface the normal devices which are utilized as a part of a home. This paper is giving the design part of the point of the smart window, smart almirah, and smart bookshelf. One of the three projects is the smart windows system. It can be controlled in accordance wit...

2020

Received 21 August 2020 Received in revised form 02 October 2020 Accepted 15 October 2020 Available online 26 October 2020

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2011

Two main trends are emerging in the area of home and service robotics. The classical one aims at the development of a single skilled servant robot, able to perform complex tasks in a passive environment. The second, more recent trend aims at the achievement of domestic tasks through the cooperation of a network of simpler robotic devices pervasively embedded in the environment. This paper contributes to the latter trend by describing the PEIS Table, a robotic table that can be embedded in a domestic environment and perform autonomous navigation tasks. The PEIS Table can operate alone, or it can be part of a smart robotic environment, based on the concept of PEIS Ecology, and cooperate with other devices to perform more complex tasks. The hardware construction and navigation software of the PEIS Table are guided by a set of requirements for robotic domestic furniture. Interestingly, these are not the same as the requirements usually considered for service robots.

Advanced Robotics

Tidying up a household environment using a mobile manipulator poses various challenges in robotics, such as adaptation to large real-world environmental variations, and safe and robust deployment in the presence of humans. The Partner Robot Challenge in World Robot Challenge (WRC) 2020, a global competition held in September 2021, benchmarked tidying tasks in the real home environments, and importantly, tested for full system performances. For this challenge, we developed an entire household service robot system, which leverages a data-driven approach to adapt to numerous edge cases that occur during the execution, instead of classical manual pre-programmed solutions. In this paper, we describe the core ingredients of the proposed robot system, including visual recognition, object manipulation, and motion planning. Our robot system won the second prize, verifying the effectiveness and potential of data-driven robot systems for mobile manipulation in home environments.

Automation in Construction, 2014

Ergonomics concern the creation of a product or an environment, where the connection between human skills and the surrounding is optimized. The aim of the proposed paper focuses on the implementation of a novel furniture system, offering ergonomy, by automatically adjusting its height relative to the user needs. The proposed robotic furniture system provides an integrated solution, comprising reduced space utilization, modularity, and intelligent operation while maintaining ergonomy. A set of electrical motors is used to position the various sections of the system into the correct height level, and to displace them towards the horizontal axis, to allow a rotational motion path. A vision system was integrated on the prototype to perform object recognition, in order to efficiently classify objects stored into the various system sections, and in order to assist the user in retrieving a specific previously stored object, by moving the appropriate section of the furniture into the correct height.

FOOTPRINT 32, 2023

Informed by twenty years of hands-on experimentation with autonomous and robotic systems in home prototypes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this study provides insight into the motivations and values of integrating computing technologies in residential architecture. Although optimising home automation for energy efficiency, ergonomics, and climate control are shown to have benefits, applications intended to influence human behaviour remain questionable. The features of three home prototypes are presented to supply evidence for this claim: a Connected Sustainable Home that is a prototype of connected sustainability; the PlaceLab, a living laboratory for studying health-related home systems; and the CityHome, a series of robotically-transformable apartment prototypes. The case studies are of distinct scales, aim at heterogeneous objectives, and were implemented at different times. They are thematically linked through digital home automation. Evaluating these three prototypes enables the determination of design criteria for integrating autonomous and robotic systems in residential architecture and provokes reflection on the impact of autonomous systems on architectural practice.

2. Objectives/aims In this course, participants work and learn in an interdisciplinary environment creating services that are related especially in the furniture sector. The practical methods and techniques of service design and innovation management are explored. Specific techniques, guidelines and examples are used to emphasize the practical aspects of service design in a ways that are both user centric and socially and culturally appropriate. Participants will consider the social, technological and economic considerations when ...