Design of a robotic automation system for transportation of goods in hospitals

Ali Gürcan Özkil; Torben Sørensen; Zhun Fan; Torben Sørensen

doi:10.1109/CIRA.2007.382926

Design of a robotic automation system for transportation of goods in hospitals

Ali Gürcan Özkil, Torben Sørensen, Zhun Fan, Torben Sørensen

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Hospitals face with heavy traffic of goods everyday, where transportation tasks are mainly carried by human. Analysis of the current situation of transportation in a typical hospital showed several transportation tasks are suitable for automation. This paper presents a system, consisting of a fleet of robot vehicles, automatic stations and smart containers for automation of transportation of goods in hospitals. Design of semi-autonomous robot vehicles, containers and stations are presented and the overall system architecture is described. Implementing such a system in an existing hospital showed the need of necessary modifications to the hospital infrastructure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2007
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2007
Pages	392-397
ISBN (Print)	1-4244-0790-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRA.2007.382926
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	7th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation - Jacksonville, United States Duration: 20 Jun 2007 → 23 Jun 2007 Conference number: 7

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Conference	7th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation
Number	7
Country/Territory	United States
City	Jacksonville
Period	20/06/2007 → 23/06/2007

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Özkil, AG, Sørensen, T, Fan, Z & Sørensen, T 2007, Design of a robotic automation system for transportation of goods in hospitals. in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2007. IEEE, pp. 392-397, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 20/06/2007. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRA.2007.382926

Design of a robotic automation system for transportation of goods in hospitals. / Özkil, Ali Gürcan; Sørensen, Torben; Fan, Zhun et al.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2007. IEEE, 2007. p. 392-397.

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