Author(s):
Seabra, Jeremie De
Date: 2014
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14074
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Assistance-Dog; Wearable devices; Remote monitoring; Assistive technologies; Wireless; Signal processing
Description
Despite the recent progresses in robotics, autonomous robots still have too many limitations to reliably help people with disabilities. On the other hand, animals, and especially dogs, have already demonstrated great skills in assisting people in many daily situations. However, dogs also have their own set of limitations. For example, they need to rest periodically, to be healthy (physically and psychologically), and it is difficult to control them remotely. This project aims to “augment” the Assistance dog, by developing a system that compensates some of the dog weaknesses through a robotic device mounted on the dog harness. This specific study, involved in the COCHISE project, focuses on the development of a system for the monitoring of dogs activity and physiological parameters.