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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2013.17.4.781

Design and Implementation of Robot-Based Alarm System of Emergency Situation Due to Falling of The Eldely  

Park, ChulHo (한경대학교 전기전자제어공학과)
Lim, DongHa (한경대학교 전기전자제어공학과)
Kim, Nam Ho (한경대학교 바이오정보기술전문대학원)
Yu, YunSeop (한경대학교 전기전자제어공학과)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.17, no.4, 2013 , pp. 781-788 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a quadruped robot-based alarm system for monitoring the emergency situation due to falling in the elderly. Quadruped robot includes the FPGA Board(Field Programmable Gate Array) applying a red-color tracking algorithm. To detect a falling of the elderly, a sensor node is worn on chest and accelerations and angular velocities measured by the sensor node are transferred to quadruped robot, and then the emergency signal is transmitted to manager if a fall is detected. Manager controls the robot and then he judges the situation by monitoring the real-time images transmitted from the robot. If emergency situation is decided by the manager, he calls 119. When the fall detection system using only sensor nodes is used, sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 98.98% were measured. Using the combination of the fall detection system and portable camera (robot), the emergency situation was detected to 100 %.
Keywords
Falling; Tri-axial Accelerometer; Gyroscope; Quadruped robot;
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