An intelligent robotic walker for assisted living, Dr. Georgia Chalvatzaki
Dr. Georgia Chalvatzaki tells us about MOBOT, an ambitious European FP7 project still in evaluation stage, that uses an intelligent robotic walker to assist elderly or reduced mobility people get up from a chair and walk around, during their daily life. It is an easy to use, yet highly sophisticated and self-learning system that gradually recognizes the habits of its user and helps him (or her) overcome most difficulties. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.
Georgia Chalvatzaki
Researcher, ICCS, NTUA
Georgia Chalvatzaki received her M.Eng. degree in electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2012. She is a research associate at ICCS in the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She is also a research associate at the MOBOT project funded from the European Union. Her recent paper "Towards an intelligent robotic walker for assisted living using multimodal sensorial data" was selected in the Finalists for Best Student Paper Award & Rapid Fire Talks in MobiHealth 2014. Her research is focused on areas such as Mobile Robotics, Automation & Robotics, Motion Planning, Computer Vision, Human-Robot Interaction, Cognitive Robotics, Kalman Filtering, Sensor Fusion, Tracking, MATLAB Simulation, Machine Learning
Specialties: Robotics
Interviewed at the MOBIHEALTH 2014, the 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies", that took place in Athens, Greece, November 3–5, 2014