A Novel Monitoring System for Contagious Diseases of Patients using a Parallel Planar Robot

Abstract

A contagious disease can be transmitted very quickly from one person to another through direct contact or indirect contact. Today there are many doctors who become infected while monitoring their patients, this causes them to cease their work and even death. Therefore, this project has the objective of designing a robotic concept that allows remote monitoring of patients with contagious diseases, reducing direct contact between the doctor and the patient. For the design of this robot, the V methodology is proposed, which breakdown a complex prototype into a series of systems and subsystems. It is expected to obtain a robot with free obstacle locomotion applying the similarity law, thermal monitoring based on artificial vision, and facial recognition using Haar cascade. The concept was tested in solidworks motion. Finally, the proposed concept is simulated in ABS for the Housing with the capacity to withstand temperatures of up to 80 degrees Celsius and an aluminium structure with a security factor of 8.17.