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Journal article
Robotic Nursing Assistant Applications and Human Subject Tests through Patient Sitter and Patient Walker Tasks
Robotics (Basel), Vol.11(3), p.63
06/01/2022
Web of Science ID: WOS:000818133600001
Abstract
This study presents the implementation of basic nursing tasks and human subject tests with a mobile robotic platform (PR2) for hospital patients. The primary goal of this study is to define the requirements for a robotic nursing assistant platform. The overall designed application scenario consists of a PR2 robotic platform, a human subject as the patient, and a tablet for patient-robot communication. The PR2 robot understands the patient's request and performs the requested task by performing automated action steps. Two categories and three tasks are defined as: patient sitter tasks, include object fetching and temperature measurement, and patient walker tasks, including supporting the patient while they are using the walker. For this designed scenario and these tasks, human subject tests are performed with 27 volunteers in the Assistive Robotics Laboratory at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI). Results and observations from human subject tests are provided. These activities are part of a larger effort to establish adaptive robotic nursing assistants (ARNA) for physical tasks in hospital environments.
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- Title
- Robotic Nursing Assistant Applications and Human Subject Tests through Patient Sitter and Patient Walker Tasks
- Publication Details
- Robotics (Basel), Vol.11(3), p.63
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 22
- Grant note
- 1643989 / National Science Foundation (NSF); National Research Foundation of Korea
- Copyright
- © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Identifiers
- WOS:000818133600001; 99380168495906600
- Academic Unit
- Intelligent Systems and Robotics
- Language
- English