Scalable and heterogenous mobile robot fleet-based task automation in crowded hospital environments-a field test.

ABSTRACT: In hospitals, trained medical staff are often, in addition to performing complex procedures, spending valuable time on secondary tasks such as transporting samples and medical equipment; or even guiding patients and visitors around the premises. If these non-medical tasks were automated by deploying mobile service robots, more time can be focused on treating patients or allowing well-deserved rest for the potentially overworked healthcare professionals. Automating such tasks requires a human-aware robotic mobility system that can among other things navigate the hallways of the hospital; predictively avoid collisions with humans and other dynamic obstacles; coordinate task distribution and area coverage within a fleet of robots and other IoT devices; and interact with the staff, patients an

SUBMITTER: Valner R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9445435 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature