A novel MiniOn Agent Assisted Robotic Kitchen Plat- form Christos Georgoulas *, Thomas Linner, and Thomas Bock Department of Architecture, Building Realization and Robotics Lab, Technical University Munich, Germany * Corresponding author (christos.georgoulas@br2.ar.tum.de) Purpose Elderly people tend to have several light, or even severe, disabilities, constraining them from most of every household task. Additionally, they tend to consume much of their daily time in the kitchen environment. A typical kitchen arrangement might be useful to most of us, but the actual arrangement and functionality is of greater importance when it comes to ageing society. The proposed paper deals with a novel robotic kitchen environment specifically designed to assist elderly individuals. Method Demographic change design deals with providing design solutions and services ori- ented on specific population categories. The ageing society receives a non-negligible concern in this area, since this population category requires a quite different design approach in household environment 1 . A compact and modular ap- proach design is proposed, providing enhanced functionality, information technology services, and the ability to accom- modate MiniOn individual robotic agents 2 , to support the individuals while cooking, serving or cleaning up. Various kitch- en design models were studied in order to conclude the design of the proposed prototype. Test cases were conducted in a real kitchen environment to acquire enough knowledge and to depict the actual problems and limitations the ageing society faces, while performing these relevant tasks. Results & Discussion The proposed kitchen system comprises a series of robotic actuators and sensors, novel space utilization techniques, and a set of visually guided robotic agents to assist in most of the required kitchen tasks. The performance of such a kitchen environment system, can undoubtedly embrace future design approaches, and strongly contribute in demographic change design. Keywords: Ambient Integrated Robotics, kitchen design, mobile robots INTRODUCTION Domestic architecture constantly undergoes changes and transitions. In ancient times it began with an open fireplace. The fireplace was later integrated in the building. That introduced some risky conditions in the home environment considering CO 2 air concen- tration. The situation hadn’t been changed much until the beginning of industrialization, when the first iron stoves, which enclosed the fire completely, were produced. However, the design of the kitchen wasn’t influenced by the cooking process. This changed with the Frankfurt Kitchen designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 3 . She was mainly affected by the ideas of Fredrick Winslow Taylor. Taylor analyzed and synthesized workflows 4 . The Frankfurt kitchen is a designed concept for optimized, fitted kitchen, influenced by the workflows of its time. The proposed study deals with a new interpretation of the Frankfurt Kitchen. Nowadays, it is necessary to focus more and more on human needs and health care, since the possibilities change due to the recur- rent advances in technology. For example household daily activities can be performed by robots and it is possible to develop furniture with sensors for meas- uring the vital functions 5 (Figure 1). Initially a survey on various existing technologies was performed. Activities of Daily Living and the Frankfurt Kitchen were concerned. After that, the paper describes the experiments conducted in order to define the proposed implementation specifica- tions. The resulting findings defined the concept and solution approaches. Fig.1. Personal health monitoring system with microsys- tem sensor technology RESEARCH AND SURVEY Since spending time in the kitchen is one of the main parts of our daily routine, the research began by collecting information about basics of the modern kitchen. This included the Frankfurt kitchen and the workflow analyses. As an important basis, daily activ- ities and the Frankfurt kitchen will be explained in detail in this section. New ideas and state-of-the-art