Applied Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 5
March-1 2023 - 623 articles
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Cover Story: Eating is considered as one of the most important activities of daily living (ADL). However, with the aging population and the rapid spread of chronic diseases, many patients require assistance from family members or professional caregivers to eat. As a result, various types of meal assistance robots (MAR) have been developed and introduced to address this issue. In this study, we propose a MAR system suitable for an Asian diet, which includes dishes that are easy to handle with chopsticks and soup. The system comprises an eating utensil that can alternate chopsticks and spoons and a food acquisition point estimator that recognizes the food area from the plate image and calculates the best location to acquire each dish. Additionally, we have developed a contactless user interface based on facial recognition to accommodate users with physical limitations. View this paper 
