TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a tele-nursing mobile manipulator for remote care-giving in quarantine areas
AU - Li, Zhi
AU - Moran, Peter
AU - Dong, Qingyuan
AU - Shaw, Ryan J.
AU - Hauser, Kris
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/21
Y1 - 2017/7/21
N2 - During outbreaks of contagious diseases, healthcare workers are at high risk for infection due to routine interaction with patients, handling of contaminated materials, and challenges associated with safely removing protective gear. This poses an opportunity for the use of remote-controlled robots that could perform common nursing duties inside hazardous clinical areas, thereby minimizing the exposure of healthcare workers to contagions and other biohazards. This paper describes the development of the prototype system Tele-Robotic Intelligent Nursing Assistant (TRINA), which consists of a mobile manipulator robot, a human operator's console, and operator assistance algorithms which automate or partially-automate tedious and error-prone tasks. Using off-the-shelf robotic and sensing components, total hardware costs are kept under $75,000. The system's capabilities for performing standard nursing tasks are evaluated in the simulation laboratory of a nursing school.
AB - During outbreaks of contagious diseases, healthcare workers are at high risk for infection due to routine interaction with patients, handling of contaminated materials, and challenges associated with safely removing protective gear. This poses an opportunity for the use of remote-controlled robots that could perform common nursing duties inside hazardous clinical areas, thereby minimizing the exposure of healthcare workers to contagions and other biohazards. This paper describes the development of the prototype system Tele-Robotic Intelligent Nursing Assistant (TRINA), which consists of a mobile manipulator robot, a human operator's console, and operator assistance algorithms which automate or partially-automate tedious and error-prone tasks. Using off-the-shelf robotic and sensing components, total hardware costs are kept under $75,000. The system's capabilities for performing standard nursing tasks are evaluated in the simulation laboratory of a nursing school.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989411
DO - 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989411
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85027986192
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 3581
EP - 3586
BT - ICRA 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2017
Y2 - 29 May 2017 through 3 June 2017
ER -