Activity scheduling for a robotic caretaker agent for the elderly

• Main Authors: Zhang, Huiliang, Chang, Yuming, Huang, Shell Ying
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94269; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7068
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A real-time robotic agent that takes care of an elderly person at home will need to schedule various tasks in real time. The deadlines of its tasks are generally soft (missing a deadline by a few minutes in most cases has no serious consequences). Another characteristic is that many tasks are pref...