With the arrival of a global aging society, eldercare shows the general trend of demand greater than supply. The older adults are expected to enjoy a better quality of life through robot services. For example in the place where supervising taking medicine, a robot which can accompany the older adults warmly like a nurse is far more effective than an alarm clock. When the older adult encounters a dangerous situation such as falling down, timely warning by a robot can significantly reduce the risk of accidents. In fact, the abilities to moving, perceiving and serving forwardly offers a first-rate experience that no other solution can replace. Although there are more and more useful technologies of robotic developed in recent years, there is no mature and stable application in eldercare that can be truly industrialized.
The IJCAI-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenges aim at promoting the industrialization of eldercare robots in the future and speeding up product-level applications through this competition. We hope to see from the competition some concrete solutions and outcomes in real-world applications in near future.
Our competition this year focuses on vision-related tasks in home scenarios where the older adults live alone and heartwarming services are welcomed by them. The main technologies involved are people tracking, activity identification, pose detection, object detection, navigation, human-robot interaction and so on.
The competition include two challenges: the Robot Task Challenge and the Elderly-Care Robot Design Challenge. A team can choose one or both to participate in.
In the Robot Task Challenge, there are three tests including medicine-taking reminder, daily service and searching for missing objects. Specifically:
- Medicine-taking reminder: The robot is expected to provide the older adult with heartwarming and attentive reminders to take medicine on time as well as not take wrong medicine or take too much.
- Daily service: The robot is expected to follow the older adult during the daily life and send alarm signals when an emergency occurs and take photos to record what the older adult is doing.
- Searching for missing objects: The robot is expected to follow the older adult, observe the older adult’s movements, and remember the new positions of the objects with its extraordinary memory. When the older adult asks for something, the robot is supposed to offer help.
In the Elderly-Care Robot Design Challenge, a team is expected to submit a report on their design of solution to the elderly-care by robots in domestic environments, while detailed implementation of the proposed solution is not required. The evaluation criteria include practicability, novelty, and general applicability of the design.
1.the Robot Task Challenge Competition : 13-16 August 2019
2.Deadline for submitting designing report of the Elderly-Care Robot Design Challenge : Aug 1, 2019
The IJCAI-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenges Schedule
Date
|
Time |
Competition Item |
Statement |
|
August 12 |
09:00-18:00 |
Free
debugging for team setup |
Check
in Debugging |
|
August 13 |
a.m. |
09:00 ~
12:00
|
Each
team is free to debug |
|
10:00 ~
12:00 |
Meeting
of team leaders and referees |
All
teams are required to participate |
||
p.m. |
12:00 ~
16:00 |
Time-sharing
debugging |
The
debugging sequence is determined by draw lots |
|
16:00 ~
18:00 |
Free
debugging |
|
||
Night |
18:00 ~ |
Free
debugging |
Depending
on the availability of venue |
|
August 14 |
a.m. |
09:00 ~
12:00
|
Opening Ceremony Daily Service Difficulty
I test |
Each
team will take part in the competition according to the order of draw |
p.m. |
13:00 ~
14:00 |
Daily
Service Difficulty II test |
Top
5 entries |
|
14:00 ~
15:00 |
Daily
Service Difficulty III test |
Top
3 entries |
||
15:00 ~
15:30 |
Daily Service
Difficulty IV test |
Top
2 entries |
||
15:30 ~
16:00 |
Group
photo |
All
to attend |
||
16:00 ~
18:00 |
Free
debugging |
|
||
Night |
18:00 ~
|
Free
debugging |
Depending
on the availability of venue |
|
August 15 |
a.m. |
09:00 ~
12:00 |
Expert
Talks and Poster Session
A |
All
are required to
attend |
p.m. |
13:00 ~
14:30 |
Medicine-taking
Reminder |
Difficulty
I test All
to attend |
|
15:00 ~
16:00 |
Medicine-taking
Reminder |
Difficulty
II test Top
5 entries |
||
16:00 ~
17:00 |
Medicine-taking
Reminder |
Difficulty
III test Top
3 entries |
||
|
17:00 ~
17:30 |
Medicine-taking
Reminder |
Difficulty
IV test Top
2 entries |
|
Night |
18:00 ~
|
Free
debugging |
Depending
on the opening of venues |
|
August 16 |
a.m. |
09:00 ~
10:00
|
Searching
for Missing Objects |
Difficulty
I test All
to attend |
10:00 ~
11:00 |
Searching
for Missing Objects |
Difficulty
II test Top
5 entries |
||
11:00 ~
12:00 |
Searching
for Missing Objects |
Difficulty
III&IV test |
||
p.m. |
13:00 ~
16:00 |
Expert
Talks and Poster Session
B |
All
are required to
attend |
|
16:00 ~
17:00 |
Award
and Closing Ceremony |
All
are required to
attend |