Autonomous Robots has started evolving and its impact is high during this pandemic time. Hospitals are in a need of this kind of autonomous robot for sanitation and patient monitoring. Sanitation of a larger area is very difficult for a human, also it has more risk factors (covid spread), need for higher man power.
Considering the above problems, I've come up with an idea of creating a prototype of Autonomous UGV Robot that is capable of mapping the environment autonomusly and can move to the user desired goal position by avoiding obstacles and planning its path autonomously. For the initial development I planned to make the robot as a patient monitoring robot, and in the next development I've planned to develop robot with sanitizer sparyers and some other tools. The existing solution uses ROS 1, I planned to use ROS 2 as the Xilinx Kria KV260 is capable of accelerating hardware for ROS 2 Robotics Stack. Also ROS 2 is more secure and optimized than ROS 1. So, I'll be creating a UGV robot with secure framework with high hardware acceleration. Also, The bot will be consisting of a Camera, used for object detection and person identification and patient monitoring.
Working:
Due to some technical issues and a 3D printing issues, I'm unable to deploy KRIA KV260 directly on the bot. As I'm currently developing the v2 build of the robot. I've attached the working video of the v1 model of ugv below. V2 working video will be shared soon along with the open source github repo.
Mini prototype of Autonomous Patient Monitoring Robot
Future Developments:
The upcoming V2 build consists of
Object Detection and recognition with Vitis AI
Visual SLAM and Lidar based SLAM
Payload Capacity of 5KG
Voice assistant and Voice Control system for supporting patients
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