Subventions et des contributions :

Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019).

The overarching vision of this project is to design and build a collaborative service robot that will help peoplex000D
with developmental disabilities (DD) reach their personal goals and achieve greater independence, usingx000D
existing and new technologies. This will allow JDQ Systems Inc. to advance the type of services provided tox000D
people with DD and their caregivers in a group home environment.x000D
The aim of this project is to detect and identify peoples' faces in a group home through the visual data capturedx000D
by the robot's camera. This requires detecting human faces from one or multiple people in various conditions,x000D
and from various angles and distances depending on the relative location of the robot. Identifying the face ofx000D
each individual is a second necessity, and requires working with sample labelled data from a specific groupx000D
home.x000D
Delivering such a service robot will improve the scale of services provided to people with DD economically. Itx000D
also reduces the burden of repetitive tasks on the caregivers and frees up their time to focus on other tasks thatx000D
robots cannot do well at present. Developing such a technology for JDQ Systems Inc. paves the way to achievex000D
greater goals that will result in continual improvement of support services accompanied with continualx000D
attention to the efficient use of limited financial resources. Achieving the goals of this project also allows tox000D
investigate the growing problems and opportunities in the health and elder care sectors that will manifest inx000D
Canadian society as our population ages.