International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 07 Issue: 10 | Oct 2020
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Medical Assistant Robot ARM for COVID-19 Patients Treatment – A Raspberry Pi Project Prakash Kanade1, Sunay Kanade2 1Hobby
Researcher in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, IOT 2Student, Bangalore, Karnataka, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***----------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract – In this pandemic, the most important people are the health care workers. Without proper PPE, many of our
health care workers are losing their lives to Covid-19. Let’s go into the life of a health care worker. Imagine you are a health care worker treating a COVID patient. You are scared to treat them for fear of catching the virus, even with PPE. Now with a medical robot arm, you can control all the actions to treat patients from a safe distance. Giving food, water, medicine and taking different readings from patients has never been easier. This robot arms can be controlled with the health care worker’s Smartphone from a safe distance. Key Words: COVID-19, Robotics, Raspberry PI, Bluetooth, PPE, medical robots, LeenaBOT.
1. INTRODUCTION In this COVID-19 pandemic most important people are the medical staff. With a lack of PPE, we are losing many of our medical health care workers to the virus. For safety of health care workers, we are proposing a medical assistant robot arm that can be controlled from safe distance to take care of COVID patients. In this article we will cover how to control a robot arm using a Bluetooth connection between a phone and raspberry pi. Using a Bluetooth app installed on the phone we can connect to the python code running in raspberry pi interfaced to the robot arm. By sending signals from phone to raspberry pi we will be able move the robot arm, thus helping many health care workers whose lives are on the line. Table -1: Bill of Materials Components Name 6DOF Robot Arm
Quantity 1
MG996R servo Motor 5V out Power bank Breadboard Breadboard power supply board Android Smart Phone
5 1 1 1
Description Already assembled robot arm considered for this project Recommended servo motor for Arm Two USB Out: 5V , 2.1Amp 1Amp Small size
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Smart phone to install Bluetooth App
Scope of this article is limited to controlling robot arm using Bluetooth device. For robot arm assembly please refer [1]
2. SYSTEM INTERFACE In our proposed setup, robot arm control configuration is not tied to one Smartphone. In this COVID situation, each health care worker is not assigned to one patient, but are constantly moving from one patient to another. Availability of the health care workers is also constantly changing. In our proposed system, the robot arm is configured to connect to any nearby health care worker’s Bluetooth Smartphone which comes within 30 meters range. Interface diagram of complete project. [3] [4]
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