INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

The lJCAl-2019 Eldercare Robot challenges

With the arrival of a global aging society, eldercare shows the general trend of demand greater than supply. The olderadults are expected to enjoy a better quality of life through robot services. For example in the place where supervisingtaking medicine, a robot which can accompany the older adults warmly like a nurse is far more effective than an alarmclock. When the older adult encounters a dangerous situation such as falling down, timely warning by a robot cansignificantly reduce the risk of accidents. In fact, the abilities to moving, perceiving and serving forwardly ofers a first.rate experience that no other solution can replace. Although there are more and more useful technologies of roboticdeveloped in recent years, there is no mature and stable application in eldercare that can be truly industrialized.

The luCAl-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenges aim at promotina the industrialization of eldercare robots in the futureand speeding up product-level applications through this competition. We hope to see from the competition someconcrete solutions and outcomes in real-world applications in near future.

Our competition this vear focuses on vision-related tasks in home scenarios where the older adults live alone andheartwarming services are welcomed by them. The main technologies involved are people tracking, activityidentification, pose detection, object detection, navigation, human-robot interaction and so on.

The competition include two challenges: the Robot Task Challenge and the Elderly-Care Robot Design Challenge. Ateam can choose one or both to participate in.

In the Robot Task Challenge, there are three tests including medicine-taking reminder, daily service and searching formissing objects. Specifically:

. Medicine-taking reminder: The robot is expected to provide the older adult with heartwarming and attentivereminders to take medicine on time as well as not take wrong medicine or take too much.

. Daily service: The robot is expected to follow the older adult during the daily life and send alarm signals when anemergency occurs and take photos to record what the older adult is doing.

Searching for missing objects: The robot is expected to follow the older adult, observe the older adult's movementsand remember the new positions of the objects with its extraordinary memory. When the older adult asks forsomething, the robot is supposed to offer help.

In the Elderly-Care Robot Design Challenge, a team is expected to submit a report on their design of solution to theelderly-care by robots in domestic environments, while detailed implementation of the proposed solution is notrequired. The evaluation criteria include practicability, novelty, and general applicability of the desian.

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