Dear partners,

to have a better ide of our starting point, please find herewith a video on Giraff+ that illustrates its functionalities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydo6y5Rq_XI.

GiraffPlus integrates advanced activity monitoring using a network of sensors together with a Giraff robot. Therefore our main effort should be focus on creating a netwrok for monitoring physical and cognitive activity of the elder that is complementary to what is already present in Giraff+.

Sumarizing the main features of interest of Giraff+ for Robohome are:
- the capability of Giraff of moving autonomously in the house, given a target position identified on the map.
- the presence of a Kinect camera + a touch screen in Giraff.
- the ability to recharge autonomously with a mechanism similar to that employed by AIBO robots.
- the integration of a sub-network of ambient sensors (gasfire on, sitting on the sofa, TV on, gas alarm... )
- the integration of a sub-network for clinical monitoring (pressure sensors, .....)

You may find a video on REWIRE here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGrl3iETug. We will incorporate the hierarchical structure that is a legacy of the FITREHAB and REWIRE projects and the IGER system will be made available as project background by UMIL.

The main features of IGER are:
- full configurability
- full adaptation.
- monitoring integrated.
- data log.
- real-time adaptation.
- multi-device support.

Alberto

Prof. N. Alberto Borghese
Department of Computer Science - University of Milano
Via Comelico, 39 - 20135 Milano, Italy
Telephone: +39-02-503.16325 Fax: +39-02-503.16373.
Email: alberto.borghese@unimi.it Skype: borgheseA

Laboratory of Applied Intelligent Systems (AIS Lab)
Via Celoria 20, Edificio CTU-3, http://ais-lab.di.unimi.it/
Telephone: +39.02-503.14011 Fax: +39-02-503.14012.