Design and Simulation of an Automated Guided Vehicle through Webots for Isolated COVID-19 Patients in Hospitals

摘要

Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) is a new disease that is spreading worldwide. It easily spreads from the contaminated individual to others through beads of salivation or release from the nose. This pandemic situation proved that doctors, nurses, and front line workers are real-life heroes. The patients affected due to COVID-19 is increasing regularly. Doctors and nurses who treat the patients wear all their personal protective equipment and clothes, yet, they get influenced as well. Doctors and nurses can’t be in direct contact with the patients frequently since the probability of spread is high. The patients need to be served with food, medicines, and other required things on a regular time basis. To reduce the spread, human force, and to maintain a strategic distance from COVID-19 affected patients, the best way is to utilize an automated guided vehicle (AGV) to carry the essentials and transport it to the patient’s room as per the line map given. A hospital environment that depicts the isolated ward with the COVID-19 affected patients is created using Webots. Four mobile robots are left inside the environment with a map that navigates it to the patient’s room. The robots are simulated with the environment as such two robots take care of the left half and the other two robots take care of the right half of the isolated ward.