Preliminary Studies of a Model for a Robot that Creates an Interactive Communication with Elderly People to Satisfy Their Clothing Item Requests

Robotic technology has become more and more sophisticated in the last epoch and a consequence of this revolution is the huge diffusion of robots. Currently, robots are no more relegated only to the industrial field, indeed they can be employed in houses, as assistants for several tasks, or in hospitals. In this paper, in particular, we are going to describe a possible implementation of an innovative model for an assistive robot that creates an interactive communication with elderly people to satisfy their clothing item requests. In detail, assistive robots need several skills during this kind of task, such as cloth classification, manipulation of clothes, and human-robot interaction. Concerning manipulation, the use of machine learning is increasing in this field, which develops fast and powerful grasping models and this is the reason why we would like to use one of them in the grasping phase. The reasons described before brought us to propose an innovative model for an assistive robot that satisfies clothing item requests of elderly people.