Robotic System for Encouraging Elderly Dementia Patients to Communicate with Emotional Estimation and Monitoring Functions
| Project/Area Number |
26540131
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Intelligent robotics
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| Research Institution | Saitama University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
小林 貴訓 埼玉大学, 理工学研究科, 准教授 (20466692)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | コンピュータビジョン / 知能ロボット / ヒューマンロボットインタラクション / 認知症 / 感情認識 / 対話システム / 画像、文章、音声認識等 / 知能ロボティックス / ユーザインタフェース |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We have worked toward realizing a system to encourage elderly dementia patients living alone to actively communicate. We have developed a video communication system that enables the elderly to talk with their family members just by pushing a simple button. The system is also equipped with monitoring sensors that can send alarm email messages to family members if it senses a lack of activity in the elderly person’s room. In addition, a small robot is equipped at the elderly person’s side and can talk with the elderly person whenever his/her family members are unavailable to talk. We have also developed a method for recognizing emotions via facial expressions and estimating heart rate from facial video images. We have obtained promising results through experiments that we can estimate the elderly’s emotional status from the information obtained by our method.
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[Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 見守りシステム2014
Inventor(s)
久野 義徳、小林 貴訓、杉山 一英、興津 勝彦
Industrial Property Rights Holder
久野 義徳、小林 貴訓、杉山 一英、興津 勝彦
Industrial Property Rights Type
特許
Industrial Property Number
2014-234061
Filing Date
2014-11-18
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