Application of a Plug-and-Play Guidance Module for Hospital Robots

This paper explores the design and development of an intelligent plug-n- play guidance module for hospital robots to recover the shortage of healthcare personnel in hospitals and healthcare centres in EU countries. The module is developed by using Orca which is an open-source framework for developin...

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Main Authors: M. K. Hasan, A. S. M. Hoque, Tamas Szecsi
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Hospital Guidance Robot
Active RFID
Orca
Player
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.397.6310
http://www.iieom.org/paper/Final Paper for PDF/281 Kamrul Hasan.pdf
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Summary:This paper explores the design and development of an intelligent plug-n- play guidance module for hospital robots to recover the shortage of healthcare personnel in hospitals and healthcare centres in EU countries. The module is developed by using Orca which is an open-source framework for developing component-based robotic systems. Active RFID system is used in this module to guide patients or visitors to any known place in the hospital. If the patient or visitor is lost the robot will automatically notify the authorised hospital personnel. It is hoped that this robot swarm system will contribute to better patient care in hospitals.

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