Forschungsinstitut Technologie und Behinderung Project MOBINET

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Project MOBINET

Thursday, 02 February 2006

Mobile Robotics Technology for Health Care Services Research Network

Short description

Within the European MobiNet project, guest researchers are exchanged between the project partners in order to build groups working on concepts for the application of mobile robots in healthcare applications. Besides the technical work, the professional training of young researchers is the focus of the project. The exchange of researchers supports the mutual exchange of knowledge and skills between the researchers as well as between the various involved disciplines.

Focus of FTB

• Market survey
• User requirements analysis
• Development of a speech-input device to control the MANUS manipulator

Project partners

• Zenon SA, Athen, Griechenland (general project leader)
• FernUniversität Hagen / Lehrstuhl Prozeßsteuerung und Regelungstechnik, Hagen, Germany
• Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany
• National Technical University of Athens, Athen, Greece
• Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
• University of Reading, Reading, UK
• Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
• Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy
• Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Delft, Netherlands

Diploma thesis by guest researcher

• Mikael Larsson:
  Speech Control for Robotic Arm within Rehabilitation.
  Division of Robotics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lund University, 1999

Publications

• Helmut Heck:
  User Needs for a Mobile Service Robot in Health Care and Rehabilitation.
  Proceedings of the 1st MobiNet Symposium on Mobile Robotics Technology for Health Care Services, Athens, 15-16 May 1997, pp. 35-43
• Helmut Heck:
  User Requirements for a Personal Assistive Robot.
  Proceedings of the 1st MobiNet Symposium on Mobile Robotics Technology for Health Care Services, Athens, 15-16 May 1997, pp. 121-124
• Helmut Heck, Christian Bühler, Gunnar Bolmsjö:
  Development of New Applications for a Personal Robotic Aid to Assist Physically Disabled People.
  Proceedings of the 2^nd MobiNet Symposium on Mobile Robotics Technology for Health Care Services, Edinburgh, Scotland, 23 July 1998; pp. 61-73
• Helmut Heck, Christian Bühler, Gunnar Bolmsjö:
  User-Oriented Development of New Applications for a Robotic Aid to Assist People with Disability.
  Proceedings of the CVMR ?98 Conference on Computer Vision and Mobile Robotics Workshop, Santorini, Greece, 17-18 September 1998; pp. 196-202
• Helmut Heck, Mikael Larsson, Christian Bühler, Gunnar Bolmsjö:
  Development of a Speech Control System for the MANUS Manipulator.
  in: C. Bühler and H. Knops (Eds.): Assistive Technology on the Threshold of the New Millenium. Amsterdam Berlin Oxford Tokyo Washington/DC: IOS Press, 1999; ISBN 1-58603-001-9; pp. 297-301
• H. Heck, A. Prentza, E. Peruchon, N.I. Katevas, G. Lacey:
  User Requirements for Robotics in Health Care and Rehabiliation
  in: N. Katevas (Ed.): Mobile Robotics in Healthcare. Amsterdam Berlin Oxford Tokyo Washington/DC: IOS Press, 2001; ISBN 1-58603-079-5; pp. 17-44
• H. Heck, G. Lacey, A. Prentza, E. Peruchon, P. Rabischong:
  Human-Machine-Interfacing for Control in Healthcare Robotics.
  in: N. Katevas (Ed.): Mobile Robotics in Healthcare. Amsterdam Berlin Oxford Tokyo Washington/DC: IOS Press, 2001; ISBN 1-58603-079-5; pp. 45-71
• N.I. Katevas, W. Harwin, H. Heck, M.J. Aldon, U. Borgolte, G. Lacey, E. Peruchon, A. Prentza, J. Kontoulis:
  Mobile Robotics and Automation in Healthcare and Rehabilitation.
  in: N. Katevas (Ed.): Mobile Robotics in Healthcare. Amsterdam Berlin Oxford Tokyo Washington/DC: IOS Press, 2001; ISBN 1-58603-079-5; pp. 73-100
• The book 
  N. Katevas (Ed.): Mobile Robotics in Healthcare.
  Amsterdam Berlin Oxford Tokyo Washington/DC: IOS Press, 2001; ISBN 1-58603-079-5
  can be purchased via the FTB-Publishing House.

Project data

Duration: 10/1996 - 09/2000

Funding: co-funding by European Commission within the TMR-Programme.

Contact persons at FTB

• Dr.-Ing. Helmut Heck (head of FTB development centre)
  email: h.heck@ftb-esv.de
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Bühler (head of institute)
  email: c.buehler@ftb-esv.de