Development of a cleaning module for hospital robots
Authors: Mr.Anwarul Islam, Dr.Tamas Szecsi
Abstract
This paper describes a cleaning module which is a part of the IWARD Project (Intelligent Robot Swarm for Attendance, Recognition, Cleaning and Delivery) where a stand-alone robot (Roomba) performs scheduled (regular) cleaning and spot cleaning in a hospital ward. For this instant the Roomba needs to follow the base robot to reach the specific place to clean as Roomba doesn’t have a navigation system. To accomplish this task it is required to orient Roomba towards the robot when the roomba is following the base robot, establish distance measurement between Roomba and the robot, and communicate between Roomba and the robot. To achieve these, different types of sensors are going to be attached to the roomba and the base robot and the working procedures are described in this paper.
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Hi, in your paper, you have mentioned a number of techniques for the roomba robot to follow a guiding base robot.
Have you experimented them or some of them recently, and compared them?
I am particularly interested in the cricket device at the moment. I used to have a glimpse of the document about this device before, and there the listeners were mounted on the roof of a room, if I remember right.
I have a practical question here. How you are going to use the Cricket device using beacons and listeners for your robots. Where the listeners are going to be mounted at, when robots are working in more than one rooms? How will they know their relative positions to the base robots in a different room?
Thanks.
HI,
I am Sorry for delay in upload my presentation!
I was busy with my project!
Thanks-Anwarul Isalam
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