Comprehensive Analysis Of Medical Automation: AGV And Autonomous Mobile Robot Help Intelligent Medical Industry

Hospitals are now like factories, so AGV systems will play an increasingly important role in ensuring optimal logistics availability and performance. This paper introduces how AGV and mobile robot improve the logistics system of hospital and open the door for hospital!

AGV and autonomous mobile robots are gradually entering the healthcare industry, but to fully enter the industry, the following problems need to be solved thoroughly:

1. Need to reduce AGV cost first

2. Increase staff salaries

3. Improvements in sensor technology for positioning and navigation, for environmental identification and collision avoidance, for fleet management and material tracking, and for more detailed diagnosis of individual vehicles.<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:"

These reasons, including many others, are slowly driving changes in this application. At present, AGV has become more and more convenient and undertakes some non value-added tasks, such as pushing 800 to 1000 pounds of towing fish to the position where unqualified labor is needed. AGV plays an important role in daily operation and helps employees focus on their core nursing expertise to provide better patient care. With the help of advanced AGV management system, AGV can bring better results: it can provide patient service, improve nursing quality, and improve the operation efficiency of hospital or medical industry. What are the AGV car applications in hospitals and medical institutions? What has autonomous mobile robots done to improve the automation of hospitals and medical centers?
Eat from the kitchen to the ward and return the empty plates to the kitchen.
Transport contaminated supplies.
Sterile products transportation.
AGV types used in hospitals share the same design philosophy, which has been developed for many years. In any case, each vehicle has its own characteristics, depending on the specific supplier.

The standard configuration of the hospital AGV is the automatic guided vehicle (hospital AGC) or the automatic mobile robot (AMR), which is a kind of wheeled AGV. It is equipped with a lifting platform to load and transport the trolleys used in cargo distribution. There are other AGV configurations, such as the "L-shaped design" that looks like a standard AGV pallet truck, where the forks have been covered or replaced by a custom trolley structure. To perform the loading operation, the AGV robot is located under the trolley, and the platform and trolley are raised several cm / inch together to prepare for transportation. Even though traction AGVs have greater transport capacity, they are not common in hospitals because they have some disadvantages, such as:<span style="font-family:"
Low operability.
They can't use the elevator.
They need human intervention to remove the cart.

In healthcare institutions, AGV usually moves in the same environment as people. You can train hospital staff to deal with AGV, but not for patients, visitors, children and other external groups who may perform differently or unexpectedly.