Design and Implementation of Automatic Guided Vehicle for Hospital Application

With the advancements of robotic technologies, the medical environments are adopting more and more as pects of automation to enhance the services in hospitals. In pandemic conditions such as COVID 19, direct contact with patients may result in the spreading of disease. Hence the health community finds difficulty in distributing medicines and disposal of waste. The design and development of an automatic guided vehicle for hospital applications, which can be controlled remotely is specified here. AGV is a line follower robot, powered by a battery that can be charged from solar energy. It has infrared sensors at the bottom for path identification and an ultrasonic sensor held in front of the vehicle for obstacle detection. It collects medicines from the nurse's station and follows the path provided to reach the supply point, which is the patient's bed. The sensors provided will detect the bed and opens the corresponding box of medicine. In addition to this, it helps in real-time monitoring of patient's parameters such as temperature, pulse rate, etc. and sends information to the doctor through the internet. AGV also collects waste from the bin and dump it to a proper place.