Browsing by Author "Vila Abad, Maria"

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    • Autonomous user feeding by a Physically Assistive Robot 

      Vila Abad, Maria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-01)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
      En aquest projecte proposem un robot capaç de donar de menjar a persones autònomament. El seu comportament té en compte l'estat del món i els requisits de l'usuari per a decidir quines són les millors accions a executar ...

    • Safe feeding strategies for a physically assistive robot 

      Vila Abad, Maria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-06-21)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      With aging societies and the increase of handicapped people the demand for robots that can help nursing humans on-site is increasing. Concretely, according to World Health Organization (WHO) by 2030 more than 2 billion ...

    • Towards safety in physically assistive robots: eating assistance 

      Vila Abad, Maria; Canal Camprodon, Gerard; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem (2018)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Safety is one of the base elements to build trust in robots. This paper studies remedies to unavoidable collisions using robotics assistive feeding as an example task. Firstly, we propose an attention mechanism so the user ...