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A mobile robot system is being designed to work in a chemical laboratory environment for people with physical disabilities. We have found that chemical laboratories are good workplace alternatives to the office environment (see BACKGROUND). The main requirement for the workplace is to keep the work meaningful after the workplace has been robotized. The reasons for working with a mobile robot system are numerous:
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high flexibility for the disabled (the possibility to move between different workstations).
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only small changes in the physical environment are necessary.
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possibilities for the disabled and the non-disabled to use the same laboratory equipment.
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Neveryd, H., Bolmsjö, G. (1994). The ultrasonic navigating robot, WALKY. In: Zagler, W.L., Busby, G., Wagner, R.R. (eds) Computers for Handicapped Persons. ICCHP 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58476-5_115
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