A Robotic Interface to a Medication Review Expert System

Medication problems are responsible for a significant percentage of health problems in the aged. A robot in the patient's home may assist in monitoring their condition and medication use. This application allows us to address issues with integrating the sensory and interactive capabilities of robots with the high-level problem solving of expert systems. The robot needs to provide and recieve information from the patient with a simple interface, take sensor readings and use this data to make inferences using the expert system. This paper describes a system in development and gives a step-by-step example of an interaction between patient, robot and medication expert system.