报告题目：ASCCBot: A Robotic Assistant for Home Healthcare

报告嘉宾：Weihua Sheng（School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, USA）

报告时间：2022年12月20日（周二）10:30-12:00

报告地点：#腾讯会议：654-358-572

报告摘要：

With the shortage of qualified home healthcare professionals in many countries, elderly care is becoming a significant societal problem. It is highly desirable to develop new technologies to assist home-bound older adults so they can age independently while enjoying high quality of life, which in the long run will greatly reduce the burden on family members and the healthcare industry. In this talk Dr. Sheng will present his research lab’s effort in developing a robotic assistant called ASCCBot for home healthcare. This talk will first introduce the companion robot-based smart home framework for home healthcare. It will then focus on several research problems crucial to robot-assisted home healthcare, including fall detection, medication reminder, well-being assessment and emotion management. The talk will be concluded by discussing the future research directions in robot-assisted home healthcare.

报告人简介：

Weihua Sheng is a professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University (OSU), USA. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Sensing, Computation and Control (ASCC Lab, https://ascclab.org) at OSU. Dr. Sheng received his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Michigan State University in May 2002. He obtained his M.S and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 1997 and 1994, respectively. He has authored more than 200 papers in major journals and international conferences in the area of robotics and automation. Nine of them have won best paper or best student paper awards in major international conferences and journals. His current research interests include social robots, wearable computing and intelligent vehicles. His research has been supported by US National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DoD), Oklahoma Transportation Center (OTC), etc. Dr. Sheng is a senior member of IEEE and served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2019. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.

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