Development of a hospital service robot for transporting task

W. K. Fung; Y. Y. Leung; M. K. Chow; Y. H. Liu; Y. Xu; W. Chan; T. W. Law; S. K. Tso; C. Y. Wang

doi:10.1109/RISSP.2003.1285647

Development of a hospital service robot for transporting task

W. K. Fung, Y. Y. Leung, M. K. Chow, Y. H. Liu, Y. Xu, W. Chan, T. W. Law, S. K. Tso, C. Y. Wang

Cardiff School of Technologies

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Abstract

This paper presents a mobile robot fro routine delivery tasks of medicine, specimen, and medical devices from one station to another in hospitals. This hospital transport robot uses the fluorescent lamps on the ceiling of the corridor as natural landmarks to localize its position and orientation. A simple and efficient algorithm has been developed based on motion continuity and features matching for on-line computation of the position and orientation. A robust method is also presented for the robot to avoid collisions with static obstacles and people moving in the hospital. We have implemented this transport robot in a hospital in Hong Kong. An experimental result was demonstrated to confirm the performance of the localization and navigation algorithms.

Original language	English
Pages	628-633
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RISSP.2003.1285647
Publication status	Published - Apr 2003
Event	IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing, RISSP 2003 - Changsha, Hunan, China Duration: 8 Oct 2003 → 13 Oct 2003

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing, RISSP 2003
Country/Territory	China
City	Changsha, Hunan
Period	8/10/03 → 13/10/03

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Fung, W. K., Leung, Y. Y., Chow, M. K., Liu, Y. H., Xu, Y., Chan, W., Law, T. W., Tso, S. K., & Wang, C. Y. (2003). Development of a hospital service robot for transporting task. 628-633. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing, RISSP 2003, Changsha, Hunan, China. https://doi.org/10.1109/RISSP.2003.1285647

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