E?cient user-searching for Hearing-Dog Robot in consideration of user’s Life Rhythm

Abstract

A hearing dog is a sort of assistance dog for hearing impaired people. Physical touch of the dog can alert the people to important life sounds, such as doorbells, alarm clocks, or fire alarms. Hearing dogs can work to assist the people, but the working number of hearing dogs are insufficient all over the world. Instead of hearing dogs, we have been developing hearing-dog robots. Our robot can autonomously move to search a user. A stochastic model using past experience about locations where the user stayed was examined and confirmed as efficient to searching the user. This paper proposed new searching algorithm of the robot to consider user’s rhythm of daily life with time information of past user locations. The experimental result indicated.