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MINA: A Multitasking Intelligent Nurse Aid Robot

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Harish Ram Nambiappan,

Krishna Chaitanya Kodur,

Maria Kyrarini,

Fillia Makedon,

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PETRA '21: Proceedings of the 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference

Pages 266 - 267

https://doi.org/10.1145/3453892.3461010

Published: 29 June 2021 Publication History

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Nurses have to carry out a myriad of tasks, which is one of the main reasons for burnout. In this paper, a robotic Multitasking Intelligent Nurse Aid (MINA) is proposed to assist nurses with everyday tasks and tackle nurse burnout. MINA uses Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) to map shelves in a storage room and pointcloud using an RGB-Depth camera. The barcode of the item is first detected using zbar library, and then the pointcloud is generated in ROS and saved accordingly. Preliminary experiments with respect to the creation of a pointcloud map with barcode detection are presented. The preliminary results reveal that the system shows a 100% barcode detection rate, and with each barcode detection a corresponding pointcloud map is generated and saved automatically without any intervention.

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PETRA '21: Proceedings of the 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference

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ISBN:9781450387927

DOI:10.1145/3453892

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Vlachos EAmoiridis I(2023)Design Considerations for a Robotic Hand Sanitizer Encouragement PlatformHCI International 2023 Posters10.1007/978-3-031-35992-7_26(184-189)Online publication date: 9-Jul-2023
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Sadek EMohammed MMohammad MLotfy Badr NMohamed MEhab Ahmed AAbdelghany A(2021)SHAMS-Smart Hospital Assisting Multitasking System2021 Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS)10.1109/ICICIS52592.2021.9694267(258-265)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICIS52592.2021.9694267

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