A novel MiniOn Agent Assisted Robotic Kitchen Platform

摘要

Purpose Elderly people tend to have several light, or even severe, disabilities, constraining them from most of every household task. Additionally, they tend to consume much of their daily time in the kitchen environment. A typical kitchen arrangement might be useful to most of us, but the actual arrangement and functionality is of greater importance when it comes to ageing society. The proposed paper deals with a novel robotic kitchen environment specifically designed to assist elderly individuals. Method Demographic change design deals with providing design solutions and services oriented on specific population categories. The ageing society receives a non-negligible concern in this area, since this population category requires a quite different design approach in household environment. A compact and modular approach design is proposed, providing enhanced functionality, information technology services, and the ability to accommodate MiniOn individual robotic agents, to support the individuals while cooking, serving or cleaning up. Various kitchen design models were studied in order to conclude the design of the proposed prototype. Test cases were conducted in a real kitchen environment to acquire enough knowledge and to depict the actual problems and limitations the ageing society faces, while performing these relevant tasks. Results & Discussion: The proposed kitchen system comprises a series of robotic actuators and sensors, novel space utilization techniques, and a set of visually guided robotic agents to assist in most of the required kitchen tasks. The performance of such a kitchen environment system, can undoubtedly embrace future design approaches, and strongly contribute in demographic change design.