Phollower—The Universal Autonomous Mobile Robot for Industry and Civil Environments with COVID-19 Germicide Addon Meeting Safety Requirements

Bačík, Ján; Tkáč, Peter; Hric, L.; Alexovič, Stanislav; Kyslan, Karol; Olexa, Richard; Perduková, Daniela

doi:10.3390/app10217682

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“…Viruses, bacteria and superbugs could be destroyed by the UltraViolet-C (UVC) light equipped on the GermFalcon robot, which was originally designed for aeroplane hygiene to improve the safety of travelling [ 91 ]. The UVC light was also utilised as a germicidal add-on on the mobile robot, for the disinfection in both industrial and civil environments [ 92 ]. Similarly, eight UVC lamps were equipped around the central column of a mobile robot, with two extra lamps on the top [ 93 ].…”

Section: Robots In Covid-19mentioning

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A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wang

2021

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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Since the late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has been spread all around the world. The pandemic is a critical challenge to the health and safety of the general public, the medical staff and the medical systems worldwide. It has been globally proposed to utilise robots during the pandemic, to improve the treatment of patients and leverage the load of the medical system. However, there is still a lack of detailed and systematic review of the robotic research for the pandemic, from the technologies’ perspective. Thus a thorough literature survey is conducted in this research and more than 280 publications have been reviewed, with the focus on robotics during the pandemic. The main contribution of this literature survey is to answer two research questions, i.e. 1) what the main research contributions are to combat the pandemic from the robotic technologies’ perspective, and 2) what the promising supporting technologies are needed during and after the pandemic to help and guide future robotics research. The current achievements of robotic technologies are reviewed and discussed in different categories, followed by the identification of the representative work’s technology readiness level. The future research trends and essential technologies are then highlighted, including artificial intelligence, 5 G, big data, wireless sensor network, and human-robot collaboration.

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Section: Robots In Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wang

2021

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

185

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“…If the system consists of components connected in a simple serial architecture with a defined SIL, then the simplified relations given in the standards can be used. An example of such a system is the application published in paper [18]. However, in more complex cases, simplified relationships from standards cannot be used, and it is necessary to create a suitable model.…”

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Calculation of the Dangerous Failure Rate of the Safety Function

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Each safety-related function must be implemented with a defined safety integrity level (SIL) if the control system implements safety-related functions (SFs) in addition to the standard control functions. The required SIL of the SF depends on the quantity of the risk associated with the failure of this one SF. The SIL against random failure can be expressed through the dangerous failure rate of the SF for an electronic safety-related control system (ESRCS) operating in a continuous mode of operation. The proof must be provided (among other things) that the SIL requirements for the individual SFs are met so the ESRCS can be accepted and implemented. The assessment of the impact of random failures on the SIL of the SF must be performed using the quantitative analysis method. This paper describes the procedure and derives equations for evaluating the impact of random failure on SIL of the SF using Markov chains with two absorption states. The achieved results are presented for SF implemented by ESRCS with dual architecture based on composite fail-safety technique.

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“…Several robotic solutions for disinfection have been recently developed, for instance, based on ultraviolet light [56][57][58][59][60], spraying of disinfectant [60,61], or a combination of both [60]. The navigation of the existing robotic systems is enabled using ROS and sensor data [57,58,61], embedded navigation and localization with deep learning for semantic environment mapping [56], and the use of predefined maps of areas to disinfect [60]. Our results enable us to enhance perception and navigation capabilities of robotic systems thanks to the bidirectional connection to IFC files, where metadata is updated to be readable on authoring BIM software tools.…”

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BIM-Integrated Collaborative Robotics for Application in Building Construction and Maintenance

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The application of robotics in construction is hindered by the site environment, which is unstructured and subject to change. At the same time, however, buildings and corresponding sites can be accurately described by Building Information Modeling (BIM). Such a model contains geometric and semantic data about the construction and operation phases of the building and it is already available at the design phase. We propose a method to leverage BIM for simple yet efficient deployment of robotic systems for construction and operation of buildings. With our proposed approach, BIM is used to provide the robot with a priori geometric and semantic information on the environment and to store information on the operation progress. We present two applications that verify the effectiveness of our proposed method. This system represents a step forward towards an easier application of robots in construction.

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Phollower—The Universal Autonomous Mobile Robot for Industry and Civil Environments with COVID-19 Germicide Addon Meeting Safety Requirements

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Calculation of the Dangerous Failure Rate of the Safety Function

BIM-Integrated Collaborative Robotics for Application in Building Construction and Maintenance

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