RT Journal Article
T1 Measuring Quality of Service in a Robotized  Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Scenario.
A1 Romero-Garcés, Adrián
A1 Martínez-Cruz, Jesús
A1 Inglés-Romero, Juan F.
A1 Vicente-Chicote, Cristina
A1 Marfil-Robles, Rebeca
A1 Bandera-Rubio, Antonio Jesús
K1 Robótica
K1 Geriatría
AB Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is an integrated clinical process to evaluate frail elderly people in order to create therapy plans that improve their quality and quantity of life. The whole process includes the completion of standardized questionnaires or specific movements, which are performed by the patient and do not necessarily require the presence of a medical expert. With the aim of automatizing these parts of the CGA, we have designed and developed CLARC (smart CLinic Assistant Robot for CGA), a mobile robot able to help the physician to capture and manage data during the CGA procedures, mainly by autonomously conducting a set of predefined evaluation tests. Using CLARC to conduct geriatric tests will reduce the time medical professionals have to spend on purely mechanical tasks, giving them more time to develop individualised care plans for their patients. In fact, ideally, CLARC will perform these tests on its own. In parallel with the effort to correctly address the functional aspects, i.e., the development of the robot tasks, the design of CLARC must also deal with non-functional properties such as the degree of interaction or the performance. We argue that satisfying user preferences can be a good way to improve the acceptance of the robot by the patients. This paper describes the integration into the software architecture of the CLARC robot of the modules that allow these properties to be monitored at run-time, providing information on the quality of its service. Experimental evaluation illustrates that the defined quality of service metrics correctly capture the evolution of the aspects of the robot’s activity and its interaction with the patient covered by the non-functional properties that have been considered.
PB MDPI
YR 2020
FD 2020-09-22
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34422
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34422
LA eng
NO Romero-Garcés, A., Martínez-Cruz, J., Inglés-Romero, J.F., Vicente-Chicote, C., Marfil, R., Bandera, A. MEASURING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN A ROBOTIZED COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT SCENARIO, Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2020, 10(18), 6618
NO This work has been partially funded by the EU ECHORD++ project (FP7-ICT-601116), the RoQME Integrated Technical Project funded, in turn, by the EU RobMoSys project (H20202-732410), and the RTI2018-099522-B-C41 and the RTI2018-094591-B-I00 projects, both funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and FEDER funds.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026