Title :
Tray carrying robot for hospital use
Author :
Takahashi, Yoshihiko ; Kohda, Masayoshi ; Kanbayashi, Yasushi ; Yamahira, Kouji ; Hoshi, Teppei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Design Eng., Kanagawa Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
This paper presents a tray carrying robot for hospital use. A patient puts his or her personal belongings on trays, and the trays are stored in a separate tray rack located in a corner of a hospital ward. The tray carrying robot goes back and forth between a patient and the tray rack along single or multiple guide lines on the floor or ceiling. The guide line attached to the ceiling of a hospital ward is also proposed.
Keywords :
handicapped aids; hospitals; medical robotics; mobile robots; patient care; hospital use; hospital ward; line trace control algorithm; separate tray rack; tray carrying robot; Algorithm design and analysis; Control systems; Floors; Hospitals; Mobile robots; Motion control; Robot sensing systems; Senior citizens; Sensor systems; Switches; Hospital ward; Line trace control algorithm; Separate tray rack; Tray carrying robot;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology, 2005. ICIT 2005. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9484-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2005.1600666
