Digital Innovation Hubs in Health-Care Robotics Fighting COVID-19: Novel Support for Patients and Health-Care Workers Across Europe

Jovanović, Kosta; Schwier, Andrea; Matheson, Eloise; Xiloyannis, Michele; Rozeboom, Esther; Hochhausen, Nadine; Vermeulen, Brecht; Graf, Birgit; Wolf, Peter; Nawrat, Zbigniew; Escuder, Jordi; Mechelinck, Mare; Sorensen, Birgitte; Boscolo, Paola Roberta; Obach, Michael; Tognarelli, Selene; Janković, Milica M.; Leroux, Christophe; Ferrigno, Giancarlo; Siepel, Françoise J.

doi:10.1109/mra.2020.3044965

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“…However, due to increased hospitalization which subsequently overwhelmed healthcare systems and increased health workers’ workload, therapists could not have sufficient time to monitor the patients' progress online. To alleviate this, [26] developed an upper limb home-based robotic rehabilitation to reduce access barriers to quality rehabilitation services imposed by increased hospitalization, social distancing, stay-at-home, temporary closure of rehabilitation centers [66] and other COVID-19-related restrictions. Social distancing monitoring …”

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Unbundling the significance of cognitive robots and drones deployed to tackle COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid review to unpack emerging opportunities to improve healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa

2021

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Unbundling the significance of cognitive robots and drones deployed to tackle COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid review to unpack emerging opportunities to improve healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa

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“…C OMBATING the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) pandemic, healthcare workers in negative pressure isolation wards are exposed to confirmed COVID-19 patients, with a high risk of nosocomial infection [1], [2]. The effective and efficient deployment of medical assistive robots in the ward could largely mitigate nosocomial infection problems.…”

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“…In this regard, there is an urgent need for a robotic system that can be operated by subconsciously turning to prior knowledge of healthcare workers to enable the timely response of the pandemic. Therefore, an easy-to-use teleoperation solution with less cognitive effort is important to realize an effective, efficient, and satisfying robot-assisted telehealthcare in the isolation ward [19], [20].…”

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GuLiM: A Hybrid Motion Mapping Technique for Teleoperation of Medical Assistive Robot in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kong

Pang

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Med. Robot. Bionics

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Driven by the demand to largely mitigate nosocomial infection problems in combating the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the trend of developing technologies for teleoperation of medical assistive robots is emerging. However, traditional teleoperation of robots requires professional training and sophisticated manipulation, imposing a burden on healthcare workers, taking a long time to deploy, and conflicting the urgent demand for a timely and effective response to the pandemic. This paper presents a novel motion synchronization method enabled by the hybrid mapping technique of hand gesture and upper-limb motion (GuLiM). It tackles a limitation that the existing motion mapping scheme has to be customized according to the kinematic configuration of operators. The operator awakes the robot from

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“…These robots use some type of spraying or fogging system to cover the room with tiny droplets of a sanitizing solution, typically of less than 200 um, as they pass. Some representative examples of these disinfection robots are the Breezy One created through a partnership between Fetch Robotics and Build With Robotics, the AIMBOT from UTECH Robotics [3], the XDBot from Transforma Robotics & Nanyang Tech University [4], the disinfection robot from SENAI CIMATEC, which uses a mobile platform from Clearpath Robotics [4], among others [5][6][7].…”

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Optimal Trajectory Planning of a Mobile Manipulator for Disinfection Using Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm

Rodríguez

Banfield

Octavio

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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Autonomous mobile robots are being used for disinfection tasks as an alternative to reduce the exposure of cleaning personnel. In this article a new mobile robot manipulator is introduced for disinfection, by means of a fog generator. The robot consists of a differential drive platform and a two degrees of freedom (DoF) arm which is used to handle a fogging nozzle. For this nozzle a coverage path and a trajectory in the configuration space of the robot needs to be planned. Thus, this work presents a solution to the trajectory planning problem for kinematic control of a predefined end effector path of our disinfection robot, based on the application of a Non Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II), for optimization of energy and smoothness functions for the joint motions. It is assumed that in a previous stage the coverage path planning (CPP) problem was solved. However, a discussion is also presented on the different methods that could be used for CPP.

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Digital Innovation Hubs in Health-Care Robotics Fighting COVID-19: Novel Support for Patients and Health-Care Workers Across Europe

Cited by 17 publications

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Unbundling the significance of cognitive robots and drones deployed to tackle COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid review to unpack emerging opportunities to improve healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa

Unbundling the significance of cognitive robots and drones deployed to tackle COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid review to unpack emerging opportunities to improve healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa

GuLiM: A Hybrid Motion Mapping Technique for Teleoperation of Medical Assistive Robot in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Optimal Trajectory Planning of a Mobile Manipulator for Disinfection Using Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm

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