Plug and play your robot into your smart home: Illustration of a new framework

Sao Mai Nguyen (1, 2) , Christophe Lohr (1, 2) , Philippe Tanguy (2) , Yiqiao Chen (2)

1 Lab-STICC_IMTA_CID_IHSEV
2 IMT Atlantique - INFO - Département Informatique

We present our team IHSEV, and our preliminary studies to tackle the question of interoperability of devices and robots for smart homes. We propose a framework enabling the seamless communication between smart home devices and robots. Our framework relies primarily on the xAAL protocol, which allows any device from any type to be plugged into a smart house network. We have recently extended xAAL to allow any ROS-compatible robot to be integrated into the smart house network. We illustrate the relevance of this framework in an implemented use case: assistance of an elderly person in the case of a fall

Mots clés: Home automation networks; Interoperability; Ambient assisted living; Service robots; Agent-based smart home; Robot-assisted future home environment

Domaines: Informatique ubiquitaire; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Robotique [cs.RO]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Systèmes embarqués

Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Philippe Tanguy, Yiqiao Chen. Plug and play your robot into your smart home: Illustration of a new framework: A Communication Protocol to Plug and Play any Robot or Device of a Smart Home. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, 2017, 31 (3), pp.283 - 289. ⟨10.1007/s13218-017-0494-8⟩. ⟨hal-01584437⟩