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- Title
Feeling of Safety and Comfort towards a Socially Assistive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle That Monitors People in a Virtual Home.
- Authors
Belmonte, Lidia M.; García, Arturo S.; Morales, Rafael; de la Vara, Jose Luis; López de la Rosa, Francisco; Fernández-Caballero, Antonio; González González, Carina Soledad
- Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent a new model of social robots for home care of dependent persons. In this regard, this article introduces a study on people's feeling of safety and comfort while watching the monitoring trajectory of a quadrotor dedicated to determining their condition. Three main parameters are evaluated: the relative monitoring altitude, the monitoring velocity and the shape of the monitoring path around the person (ellipsoidal or circular). For this purpose, a new trajectory generator based on a state machine, which is successfully implemented and simulated in MATLAB/Simulink®, is described. The study is carried out with 37 participants using a virtual reality (VR) platform based on two modules, UAV simulator and VR Visualiser, both communicating through the MQTT protocol. The participants' preferences have been a high relative monitoring altitude, a high monitoring velocity and a circular path. These choices are a starting point for the design of trustworthy socially assistive UAVs flying in real homes.
- Subjects
HOME care services; SOCIAL robots; DRONE aircraft; ALTITUDES; VIRTUAL reality; NURSING care facilities
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2021, Vol 21, Issue 3, p908
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s21030908