Descripción del proyecto
Despliegue de robots en hospitales y oficinas
Los robots se han introducido en las áreas de producción de almacenes y fábricas. De hecho, en estos momentos, la industria manufacturera es el mayor usuario de la robótica. Es probable que el próximo gran campo de despliegue de la robótica logística sean los espacios comerciales interiores: hospitales, hoteles y oficinas. Estos lugares no solo cuentan con un espacio de navegación estructurado, sino que también están dotados de una infraestructura de comunicaciones fiable, ya que es necesaria para realizar operaciones comerciales habituales. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos ENDORSE explorará soluciones para automatizar completamente los procedimientos y la rastreabilidad. En concreto, se centrará en el desarrollo de una navegación multirrobótica sin infraestructura en espacios abarrotados y en el diseño de sistemas robóticos modulares que puedan ofrecer tanto servicios logísticos como de telemedicina.
Objetivo
Commercial indoor spaces such as hospitals, hotels, offices offer great potential for commercial exploitation of logistic robotics. Also, offer advantages for their deployment, since they are required by law to meet stringent building codes, and therefore the navigation space exhibits some structure. In addition, they offer reliable communications infrastructure, since this is required for normal business operation. Thus, commercial spaces are rightfully considered the next great field of logistic robotics deployment. Despite these advantages, today, few solutions exist, and these solutions do not trigger widespread acceptance by the market. This is because existing systems require costly infrastructure installation (arrays of peripheral sensors, mapping, etc.); they do not easily integrate to corporate IT solutions and as a result, they do not fully automate procedures and traceability; they are limited to a single type of service, i.e. transfer of goods.
Through transfer of knowledge, multidisciplinary research and cross-fertilization between academia and industry, ENDORSE will address the aforementioned technical hurdles. Four innovation pillars will be pursued: (i) infrastructure-less multi-robot navigation, i.e. minimum (if any) installation of sensors and communications buses inside the building for the localization of robots, targets and docking stations; (ii) advanced HRI for resolving deadlocks and achieving efficient sharing of space resources in crowded spaces; (iii) deployment of the ENDORSE software as a cloud-based service facilitating its integration with corporate software solutions such as ERP, CRM, etc.; (iv) reconfigurable and modular hardware architectures so that diverse modules can be easily swapped. The latter will be demonstrated and validated by the integration of an e-diagnostic support module (equipped with non-invasive sensors/devices) and the Electronic Health Records (EHR) interfacing, which will serve as an e-diagnostic mobile station
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- social scienceslaw
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Régimen de financiación
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