Verification of the Usefulness of SRDM through a Case Study of Smart Robot Development

In recent years, the demand for service robots has increased rapidly due to the aging population and the labor shortage. However, service robots have not been widely used because they require design improvements even after their introduction. Therefore, a tool named the Service Robot Design Matrix (SRDM) has been developed to support the design of service robots. However, SRDM has not been verified for its usefulness because it has not been applied to many cases in the current situation. The purpose of this study is to verify the role and usefulness of SRDM by analyzing the vital measurement service, one of the services provided by the AIREC smart robot in development, using SRDM. After clarifying the flow of services to measure vital data and organizing and extracting the parameters of the service system as well as the parameters of the robotic system, the dependencies between the parameters were defined and the system was modularized. As a result, the impact of changes in one parameter on the other parameters can now be understood to some extent. In addition, we were able to understand how the actual implementation of the robot interacts with the service system. This example showed that SRDM can serve as a link between service design and robot design.