Springer RADIO--Robots in Assisted Living: Unobtrusive, Efficient, Reliable and Modular Solutions for Independent Ageing

This book describes a unique approach to bring robotic technology into elders’ daily lives. Low cost components and low cost robotic assistants are effectively combined to offer high quality services to elders and people in need. The book presents in a comprehensive way how technology can be used for developing a new healthcare paradigm where high quality services are offered at home, thus reducing the ever-increasing hospitalization cost of the elders and the people with chronic diseases. From the Back Cover This book describes a unique approach to bring robotic technology into elders’ daily lives. Low cost components and low cost robotic assistants are effectively combined to offer high quality services to elders and people in need. The book presents in a comprehensive way how technology can be used for developing a new healthcare paradigm where high quality services are offered at home, thus reducing the ever-increasing hospitalization cost of the elders and the people with chronic diseases. Presents to an interdisciplinary audience IoT and robotic platforms combined in an efficient way for offering high quality services to elder end users; Discusses realistic paradigms – real houses (not labs) that have been developed using the technology described; Includes discussion of necessary IoT and CPS (cyber-physical systems) hardware architectures; Demonstrates Energy- and resource-efficient connectivity solutions. About the Author Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis is Research Director and Head of the Software and Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL), Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”. His research interests are in the areas of big data management, content analysis, natural language interfaces, ontology engineering, and personalization. He has organized international summer schools, workshops and conferences. He is currently Director of the MSc program on Data Science, and responsible for the Institute educational activities.  He is co-founder of the spin-off company ‘i-sieve Technologies’ that exploited SKEL research work on on-line content analysis. He is currently involved in the founding of the new spin-off company NewSum that exploits SKEL technology on multilingual and multi-document summarization. Dr Karkaletsis coordinated the Radio project. Dr. Stasinos Konstantopoulos holds an MEng in Computer Engineering (Univ. Patras, Greece, 1997), an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (Edinburgh Univ., U.K., 1998), and a PhD on machine learning and computational logic (Groningen Univ., the Netherlands, 2003). He leads Roboskel, the robotics activity of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”. His main research interests are artificial intelligence and computational logic, and their applications to semantic modelling, data management, and robot perception. He has published several papers in these fields and is or has been on the program and organizing committees of various international conferences, including chairing the Programme Committee of the 6th Hellenic AI Conference (SETN 2010), Athens, 2010. Dr Konstantopoulos was the scientific manager of the Radio project. Dr. Nikolaos S. Voros received his Diploma in Computer and Informatics Engineering, in 1996, and his PhD degree, in 2001, from University of Patras, Greece. His research interests fall in the area of embedded system design, and include specification techniques for complex embedded telecommunication systems, hardware-software co-design, formal refinement techniques, and reuse practices. Currently, Dr Voros is Assistant Professor at Technological Institute of Western Greece, department of Computer and Informatics Engineering where he is leading the Embedded Systems Lab. He was the General Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, which took place in Kefalonia, Greece on July 2010, Program Co-Chair for 24th International Conference on Field Programmabl