An Adaptable, Safe, and Portable Robot-Assisted Feeding System

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Main Authors: Gordon, Ethan Kroll, Jenamani, Rajat Kumar, Nanavati, Amal, Liu, Ziang, Bolotski, Haya, Karim, Raida, Stabile, Daniel, Kashyap, Atharva, Zhu, Bernie Hao, Dai, Xilai, Schrenk, Tyler, Ko, Jonathan, Faulkner, Taylor Kessler, Bhattacharjee, Tapomayukh, Srinivasa, Siddhartha
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author Gordon, Ethan Kroll
Jenamani, Rajat Kumar
Nanavati, Amal
Liu, Ziang
Bolotski, Haya
Karim, Raida
Stabile, Daniel
Kashyap, Atharva
Zhu, Bernie Hao
Dai, Xilai
Schrenk, Tyler
Ko, Jonathan
Faulkner, Taylor Kessler
Bhattacharjee, Tapomayukh
Srinivasa, Siddhartha
author_facet Gordon, Ethan Kroll
Jenamani, Rajat Kumar
Nanavati, Amal
Liu, Ziang
Bolotski, Haya
Karim, Raida
Stabile, Daniel
Kashyap, Atharva
Zhu, Bernie Hao
Dai, Xilai
Schrenk, Tyler
Ko, Jonathan
Faulkner, Taylor Kessler
Bhattacharjee, Tapomayukh
Srinivasa, Siddhartha
contents We demonstrate a robot-assisted feeding system that enables people with mobility impairments to feed themselves. Our system design embodies Safety, Portability, and User Control, with comprehensive full-stack safety checks, the ability to be mounted on and powered by any powered wheelchair, and a custom web-app allowing care-recipients to leverage their own assistive devices for robot control. For bite acquisition, we leverage multi-modal online learning to tractably adapt to unseen food types. For bite transfer, we leverage real-time mouth perception and interaction-aware control. Co-designed with community researchers, our system has been validated through multiple end-user studies.
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spellingShingle An Adaptable, Safe, and Portable Robot-Assisted Feeding System
Gordon, Ethan Kroll
Jenamani, Rajat Kumar
Nanavati, Amal
Liu, Ziang
Bolotski, Haya
Karim, Raida
Stabile, Daniel
Kashyap, Atharva
Zhu, Bernie Hao
Dai, Xilai
Schrenk, Tyler
Ko, Jonathan
Faulkner, Taylor Kessler
Bhattacharjee, Tapomayukh
Srinivasa, Siddhartha
Robotics
We demonstrate a robot-assisted feeding system that enables people with mobility impairments to feed themselves. Our system design embodies Safety, Portability, and User Control, with comprehensive full-stack safety checks, the ability to be mounted on and powered by any powered wheelchair, and a custom web-app allowing care-recipients to leverage their own assistive devices for robot control. For bite acquisition, we leverage multi-modal online learning to tractably adapt to unseen food types. For bite transfer, we leverage real-time mouth perception and interaction-aware control. Co-designed with community researchers, our system has been validated through multiple end-user studies.
title An Adaptable, Safe, and Portable Robot-Assisted Feeding System
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04134