Smart robotic walker for elderly and disabled people

Abstract

At DIEEI we developed several system for helping eledrly people and disabled persons in daily activities as indoor walking. In the thesis further analysis will be performed to made the system more autonomous and capable to autonomously interact with the users. Another system is under development to help partially disabled person in walking activities and could be a topic of study. 

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Keywords
artificial intelligence
Automated vehicles
social assistive robots
ERC sector(s)
PE Physical Sciences and Engineering
Name supervisor
Giovanni Muscato
E-mail
giovanni.muscato@unict.it
Name of Department/Faculty/School
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica
Name of the host University
University of Catania (UNICT)
EUNICE partner e-mail of destination Research
leonardo.mirabella@studium.unict.it
Country
Italy
Thesis level
Master
Minimal language knowledge requisite
English B1
Length of the research internship
6 months
Financial support available (other than E+)
No