Human Activities Transfer Learning for Assistive Robotics

Assisted living homes aim to deploy tools to promote better living of elderly population. One of such tools is assistive robotics to perform tasks a human carer would normally be required to perform. For assistive robots to perform activities without explicit programming, a major requirement is learning and classifying activities while it observes a human carry out the activities. This work proposes a human activity learning and classification system from features obtained using 3D RGB-D data. Different classifiers are explored in this approach and the system is evaluated on a publicly available data set, showing promising results which is capable of improving assistive robots performance in living environments.