Femke Ongenae from Ghent University is researching how to use personalized robotics to support the care of people with severe dementia. The proposed system uses sensors in the environment and on residents to detect behavioral disturbances or unsafe situations. It then uses this data along with resident profiles, floor plans, staff schedules and more to assign tasks to robots through services like path planning, task selection and execution. The goal is to help care for those with severe dementia through personalized assistive robots.

1. Femke Ongenae – Femke.Ongenae@intec.ugent.be
Ghent University – imec http://www.iminds.be/en/projects/wonder
HOW TO SUPPORT THE CARE OF PEOPLE WITH SEVERE
DEMENTIA THROUGH PERSONALIZED ROBOTICS?
Motion Environment sensors
Wearable Localization
Door/Window contact
Semantic
Communication
Bus
Behavioral
Disturbance
Detection Services
Robot Task
Selection Service
Task Assignment
Service
Kafka Messaging Bus
Robot Manager Robot Controller
Environment Model Staff Communication
Path Planning Service
MASSIF Task Executor
resident
profile
floor
plan
Time
table
Staff
profile
Organizational Context