arXiv:2606.30275cs.RO2026-06

让家用机器人主动调整角度,非接触监测心率呼吸更准

ActiveVital: Geometry-Aware Embodied Vital Signs Monitoring for Home Healthcare Robots

论文配图:ActiveVital: Geometry-Aware Embodied Vital Signs Monitoring for Home Healthcare Robots
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  • 机器人用视觉定位胸部,主动调节雷达角度以提升信号可测性
  • 呼吸间隔误差从0.87秒降至0.14秒,心率误差从13.59bpm降到2.22bpm
  • 适合家庭场景下无人工干预的连续生命体征监测应用

家用机器人需在非受控家庭环境中实现可靠的非接触式生命体征监测,以支持长期陪伴与安全。毫米波雷达因对亚毫米级运动敏感而具有潜力,但其测量受限于观测几何——仅能捕捉运动的径向分量。任意机器人与人体姿态常导致角度偏差,使生命体征估计不稳定。为此,我们提出将生命体征监测从被动信号恢复转为主动几何调控。ActiveVital是一种基于视觉引导的感知框架,将感知几何作为机器人的显式控制变量:通过视觉关键点定位胸腔锚点,并将对齐误差转化为控制指令,驱动安装在机器人上的雷达接近胸壁法线方向,最大化径向可观测性。此外,差分相位增强模块进一步提升了运动状态下的信号提取稳定性。实验表明,该方法将呼吸间隔误差由0.87秒降低至0.14秒,心率误差从13.59 bpm降至2.22 bpm,达到静态受控传感水平的精度,同时在非约束机器人-人体配置下仍具鲁棒性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Home robots require reliable vital signs monitoring to support long-term companionship and safety in daily environments, yet obtaining respiration and heart rate without physical contact remains challenging in unconstrained home settings. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar offers a promising solution due to its phase sensitivity to sub-millimeter motions. However, mmWave measurements are fundamentally constrained by observation geometry, since only the radial component of motion is observable. Consequently, arbitrary robot-human orientations often introduce angular misalignment that destabilizes vital signs estimation. To address this limitation, we reformulate vital signs monitoring from passive signal recovery to active geometric regulation. We propose ActiveVital, a vision-guided sensing framework that treats sensing geometry as an explicit control variable for robots. It localizes the chest anchor via visual keypoints and converts alignment errors into control commands. This steers the robot-mounted radar toward near-normal incidence to the thoracic surface, maximizing radial observability within a perception-action loop. A differential phase enhancement module further stabilizes signal extraction under motion. Experiments show that ActiveVital reduces respiration interval error from 0.87 s to 0.14 s and heart rate error from 13.59 bpm to 2.22 bpm, achieving accuracy comparable to controlled static sensing while remaining robust under unconstrained robot-human configurations.

生命体征监测毫米波雷达机器人感知非接触检测

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