Subsequent steps
Subsequent steps embrace deploying the robotic in a bigger variety of properties.
Researchers additionally plan to provide CARMEN the flexibility to have conversations with customers, with an emphasis on preserving privateness when these conversations occur. That is each an accessibility challenge (as some customers won’t have the high-quality motor expertise essential to work together with CARMEN’s contact display screen), in addition to as a result of most individuals anticipate to have the ability to have conversations with techniques of their properties. On the identical time, researchers wish to restrict how a lot info CARMEN can provide customers. “We wish to be aware that the consumer nonetheless must do the majority of the work, so the robotic can solely help and never give too many hints,” Riek stated.
Researchers are additionally exploring how CARMEN may help customers with different situations, akin to ADHD.
The UC San Diego crew constructed CARMEN based mostly on the FLEXI robotic from the College of Washington. However they made substantial modifications to its {hardware}, and wrote all its software program from scratch. Researchers used ROS for the robotic’s working system.
Many components of the mission can be found at https://github.com/UCSD-RHC-Lab/CARMEN
CARMEN: A Cognitively Assistive Robotic for Customized Neurorehabilitation at House
Anya Bouzida*, Alyssa Kubota*, Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval, Elizabeth W. Twamley, and Laurel D. Riek. 2024. CARMEN: A Cognitively Assistive Robotic for Customized Neurorehabilitation at House. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE Worldwide Convention on Human-Robotic Interplay (HRI ’24). Affiliation for Computing Equipment, New York, NY, USA, 55–64.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634971
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