AALIANCE Ambient Assisted Living RoadmapTechnology and Innovation for Ageing Well
“Ageing Well. How technologies can help”European Workshop
Salón Avante. Barcelona, 3rd June 2010
Mari Satur Torre
Fundación [email protected]
FACTS on AALIANCE - The European Ambient Assisted Living Innovation Alliance
FP7 Coordination action (CA)
THEME ICT-1-7.1 ICT and Aging
Duration: 01/2008 – 03/2010
Partners: 14
Volume: 1.646.170 €
EC Contribution: 1.070.000 €
Members
No. Name Country Type
1. VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH Germany SME
2. AGE - the European Older People's Platform Europe Association
3. Robert Bosch GmbH Germany Industry
4. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Germany Research
5. Fundación Vodafone España Spain Research
6. Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems - CNR Italy Research
7. Luleå University of Technology Sweden University
8. Nokia Research Center (until 31.12.2008) Finland Industry
9. Philips Electronics Netherlands Industry
10. Scuola Superiore S. Anna Italy Research
11. Sorin Group France Industry
12. University of Newcastle UK University
13. Vermon SA France SME
14. VTI Technologies Oy Finland Industry
15. Deutsche Telekom (from 1.4.2009) Germany Industry
• Provide a framework for stakeholders, led by the industry, for the definition of research and development priorities, timeframes and action plans on strategically important issues in the field of AAL
• Play a key role in ensuring an adecuate focus of research funding for AAL, in fostering effective public-private partnerships and in developing a European research policy, in particular FP7 and current activities launch by EU member states (AAL Joint Programme)
General Objectives
• Setting-up a sustainable network – from 14 to be extended to approx. 35 (technology providers, systems integrators, service providers, research organizations and user associations)
• Coordinating and maintaining a R&D roadmap and strategic research agenda for AAL with a mid to long perspective
• Defining stardadisation requirements• Providing recommendations for a European RTD policy
on AAL• Supporting European and national entities in increasing
the political awareness and in intensifying activities for the enhancement of new AAL technologies
Immediate Objectives
38 Associated Partners
Outcomes
Ambient Assisted Living - Strategic Research Agenda
AALIANCE
March 2009 March 2010
Table of Contents
• Introduction
• AAL for persons
• AAL in the community
• AAL at work
• Enabling Technologies
• AAL systems composition
Ageing population scenario
• A growing number of older people living alone and in need of (intensive) care.
• An ageing workforce.
• A rapid growth in the number of persons with physical disabilities.
• More financially well-appointed and wealthy senior citizens ready to enjoy their third age and to spend money on products securing and enhancing wealth, safety, security and not forgetting entertainment and communications needs.
HA & AAL
HA – Home AutomationDOMOCASADOMOCASA
AAL – Ambient Assisted Living
• From the present to the future
– Technologies
– Perspectives
– Challenges
– Developments
– Business
– Barriers
– Users
– Exploitation
– Properties
– Etc…
Home Automation• Home automation* may designate an emerging practice of increased
automation of household appliances and features in residential dwellings, particularly through electronic means…
• Possible Classification in six function domains**
* Wikipedia definition
** G. Del Zanna, M. Malavasi, and G. Vaccari, “Manuale illustrato per la domotica ad uso sociale”, Tecniche Nuove
Comfort
Automation
Home Security Communication
Person Security
Well beingPerson
Energy Saving
Electronics
Informatics
Telecommunication
Meccanics
Building Industry
Architecture
…
AAL context• “Ambient Assisted Living” (AAL) denotes concepts, products and services
that interlink and improve new technologies and social systems, with the aim of enhancing the quality of life for all people in all stages of their lives.
• AAL could be best translated as “intelligent systems of a specific assistance for a better and safer life in the home environment”.
AAL vs HA
• AAL has concepts wider than HA.• AAL is referred to specific applications and needs of users.
Comfort
Automation
Home Security Communication
Person Security
Well beingPerson
Energy Saving
Methodological Approach
1. Setting the scene• Identification of AAL application domains and technology axis• State of the Art overview per domain and technology axis
2. 1st level analysis• Plotting visionary scenarios• Pruning• Identification of the necessary enabling technologies
3. 2nd level analysis• Identification of current and future barriers to development• Drawing “rough” roadmaps of enabling technologies
4. Merging and Consolidation• Drawing Scenario roadmaps• Merging Scenario roadmaps into Domain roadmaps• Exploring synergies and cross-contamination and
consolidating AAL roadmap
AAL4Persons• AAL for health, rehabilitation and care
– Chronic disease management– Biorobotics for neuro-rehabilitation– Multi-disciplinary care teams
• Impairments and monitoring– Motor disabilities
• Personal activity management and monitoring– Physical and mental activity
• Personal and home safety and security• Activities of Daily Life oriented support• Other common activities
– Shopping– eat and drink– social interaction and communication
AAL@community
• Social inclusion– Participation in community activities– Creativity, hobbies and sports– Cultural and experience exchanges
• Entertainment and leisure– Training the brain– Exercise and gaming
• Mobility– Supporting individual physical mobility– Driving– Public transport
AAL@work• Background
– Work ability– Employers’ attitudes to older workers– Training in and for the workplace– Issues of work-life balance
• Needs of older workers in the workspace• Access to working space• Assuring environmental working conditions• Support for working• Prevention of diseases and injuries• Safety and health regulations
Enabling technologies and functions
1. Sensing
2. Reasoning
3. Acting
4. Interacting
5. Communicating
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Sensing (1)• In AAL applications, sensing is expected to take place in anything and anywhere: in- or on-body, in- or on- appliances or in the environment (home, outdoors, in vehicles, public spaces, etc.).
• Smart sensors endow a network interface, a processor and a memory.
• Applications:– Sensors for safety and security in the environments– Sensors for monitoring persons– Sensor networks– Low power and sustainable sensors
Sensing (2)Enabling TechnologiesApplications
Detection, authenticationand surveillance.
Tele-monitoring ofpatient status
Sensor network
Fasterfingerprint ID
MultimodalBiometry
Interoperable and certificated ID
ExternalBiomarkers
WirelessImplantedbiomarkers
Non invasive measurement and sensing systems (movement, cardiac, respiration,…)
Internet connected sensorsand actuators
Sensor technologies forindoor navigation andlocalization
Human statedetection
SensorsBiologically inspiredsensor-actuator integration
Camera with object detection, classification, recognition
2015 2020 2025
Reasoning (1)• Knowledge about the activities of the user and the current situation in this environment from low-level sensor data (daily activities and situations, emergency situations, user’s mid-term and long-term
behavior).
• Models• Situations• Behaviours• Activity / behaviour recognition• Reasoning process
Emergency situations:1) Helplessness/lying on the floor2) Indicators of falls3) Motionlessness4) Critical values in vital parameters
Activities of daily living:1) Sleeping2) Toilet usage3) Personal hygiene4) Preparation of meals
Motion:1) Occupancy of rooms2) Locomotion3) Quality and quantity of motion
Psychosocial behavior:1) Going out2) Meeting people3) Communication
Reasoning (2)
Enabling TechnologiesApplications
Model: User
Model: Context
Model: System
Model: Domain
Static and dynamicInformation
Self adaptive modelincluding neuro-psychological models
User model interrelatedwith context model
Environment, Objects Semantic context fusionModel evolution
Adaptive models Organic systems modelIntegrated ontologydriven models
Separate domainmodels
Inter-domain modelsModel evolution
2015 2020 2025
Reasoning (3)
2015 2020 2025
Enabling TechnologiesApplications
Gesture, emotion,activity
Situations
Optimized approachesIntegration of Reasoningand Simulation
Integratedmulti-approachreasoning
Reasoning
Activityclassification
Fine-grained online activityrecognition and monitoring
Online activityrecognition
Gesture, expressionrecognition
Recognition of criticalsituations
Situation awarenessPrevention of critical situations
Acting (1)• Systems and services, which proactively act for assisting, monitoring
and providing well-being of elderly or not sufficient people in an assisted environment.
– Service and companion robots
– Robots for outdoor applications
– Neuro-rehabilitation and prosthetic robots
– Smart environments
Acting (2)
Vision
Software RobotsHumanoid Robots
Robotic platforms
Prof. Sang-Rok Oh – Korean Institute of Science and Technology
Acting (3)• Smart environments will proactively assist people and will be personalized
in response to the occupant’s presence and behaviour and to the normal activities related to work, education, entertainment or healthcare.– Integration of automation, security, comfort, communication, energy– Recognition, awareness situations – Pervasive distribution of intelligence and sensing throughout the home
environment– Internet-connected sensors and actuators (also cognitive robotics)– Exploitation of WSNs capabilities– House robotic appliances
Acting (4)– Mechatronic technologies for AAL, including operative and wearable robot for neuro-rehabilitation and
assistive purposes.• Operational machines for upper and lower limbs
• Exoskeleton-like machine
• Prosthetic robots
Acting (5)
2015 2020 2025
Enabling TechnologiesApplications
Actuators
Human motioncontrol strategies
Back-drivableunder-actuatedmechanisms
Patient’s stiffness andKinematics dependentback-drivability
Patient’s stiffnessdependentback-drivability
Mechanical design
Innovativemicro-macroactuators
New strengthened bio-artificial muscles
Human musculoskeletalSystem-based actuators
Under-actuated roboticdevices
Human inspired robotic features
Whole body humanmotion control theories
Developing high-complexityand fully bio-inspiredrobotic limbs
Operational machinesfor upper and lower limbs
Exoskeleton-likemachine for upperand lower limbs
Rehabilitation robots
Acting (6)– Service and companion robots. Adaptive Robotic Servant in
Intelligent Homes. Objectives in this application area are identified as:• time saving in daily repetitive work;
• having a companion and a servant/assistant;
• personal robots adaptation to individual needs;
• exercising robots;
• medical support;
• reaching high acceptance by inexperienced users;
• 24-hour service in household environments;
• robots in environments dangerous to humans;
• mobility;
• incremental development of robots.
Acting (7)
SmartCane
Robot Chair
DustBotWalker
– Service robots for outdoor applications:• Urban hygiene
• Transportation
• Support at mobility
Acting (8)
2015 2020 2025
Enabling TechnologiesApplications
Navigation
Manipulation
Robot for simple ADLsupport in structuredenvironments
Cognitive (humanoids) assistive robotsfor enhanced ADL support in unstructured environments
Robotic supportfor ADLs
Reliable map-basednavigation and obstacle avoidance
Reliable learning-basednavigation in unstructuredenvironments
Intension estimation-based selection of destination
Fetch and carryvisible objects
Autonomous manipulationof unknown objects
Autonomous manipulationof known objects
(Modular) Roboticassistant for mobility
Biorobotic assistant for mobility(robotic suites and wearable robots)
Robotic supportfor mobility
Supervisedmanipulation of partiallyknown objects
Interacting (1)• Human beings and machines will be surrounded by intelligent interfaces supported
by computing and networking technology in everyday objects. – Initiative– Design process– Awareness– Situation– Modality– Connectivity
Interacting (2)
Enabling TechnologiesApplications
User initiative,Adaptable interfaces
Autonomous intelligentagents and servicerobots
Mixed initiative,Self-adaptive interfaces
Co-creation of portableintentional interfaces
Predefined factors andreasoning
Social and emotionalawareness
Adaptation and learning,profiling andstereotyping
Local (touch)screen-based
Avatar robots,Brain-computer interfaces
Rich integration throughdistributed objects
Initiative
Design process
Awareness
Connectivity
Modality
Standalone devices,Wireless charging
Automatic adaptationFederated devices,Scalable contentsRobust media
2015 2020 2025
Communicating (1)• In AAL systems, infrastructures and devices are becoming pervasive, with
an increasing number of distributed devices that can communicate between themselves as well as with centralized services.
– Connectivity and protocols
– Network
– Understanding data
– Dynamic composition of systems and services
Public area
Local or home
Personal or body
Internet of ThingsService Era2010 - 2030
Internet of PeopleCommunication Era
1900 - 2010
Internet of PresenceVirtual Presence Era
2030
Main Achievements
setting-up a network of more than 50 organisations, involving companies as technology providers and systems integrators, service providers, research organisations and user associations
increase awareness of new AAL technologies (e.g. the AALIANCE Malaga conference in March 2010)
publication of policy recommendations in the field of Ambient Assisted Living – in cooperation with representatives of the AAL Joint Programme
Publication of the 1st Roadmap and Strategic Research Agenda on IT technologies for Ambient Assisted Living that aim to contributing to a coordinated European R&D approach
Definition of standardisation requirements
Community Building/Awareness
Roadmapping/Strategic Research Agenda
Policy Recommendations
Standardisation Requirements
AALIANCE ConferenceMálaga, 11th – 12th March 2010
Participants: Call for papers:Poster Exhibition:
ALLIANCE Conference
AALIANCE Ambient Assisted Living RoadmapTechnology and Innovation for Ageing Well
“Ageing Well. How technologies can help”European Workshop
Salón Avante. Barcelona, 3rd June 2010
Mari Satur Torre
Fundación [email protected]
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