RADIO--Robots in Assisted Living

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.

Introduction to the RADIO Project.- Part 1. Early Detection of Emerging Functional Impairments.- A Survey of Robot Perception for Clinical Assessment.- Obtrusiveness Considerations of AAL Environments.- Realistic and Unobtrusive Solutions for Independent Ageing.- Part 2. The RADIO System.- Integrating Robots and WSN: Communications and Interfacing Considerations.- ROS as Integration Medium for Service Robotics.- Accelerating AAL Home Services using Embedded Hardware Components.- Designing User Interfaces for Elderly.- The Ecosystem of Connected RADIO Systems.- Part 3. The Road to Commercialization.- Roadmap to Expanding Alternatives to Hospitalization.- Robots in Home Automation and Assistive Environments.