Giving patients a lift - the robotic nursing assistant (RoNA)

2014 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA) Pub Date : 2014-04-14 DOI:10.1109/TePRA.2014.6869137

J. Ding, Y. Lim, M. Solano, Kevin Shadle, Chris Park, Chris Lin, John Hu

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Nursing has ranked as one of the top 10 occupations for causing the work-related musculoskeletal injuries in U.S. Constantly and manually lifting and repositioning patients around bed and transferring them from bed to bed have been recognized as the major reasons causing nurses' workrelated musculoskeletal injuries. We believe that advanced robotic technologies can assist nurses in performing the labor intensive tasks and preventing the musculoskeletal injuries among medical workers and nurses. In this paper, we present Hstar Technologies' 2nd generation Robotic Nursing Assistant (RoNA) systemRoNA. Compared to the 1st generation RoNA system released in 2011, the RoNA has more powerful arms which can lift up to 500 pounds patient. The RoNA has been equipped with many intelligent sensors that allow nurse easily and intuitively guide it performing the patient lifting. The paper also discusses the design improvement, control system as well as the software architecture of the RoNA system.

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机器人护理助理(RoNA)助病人一臂之力

在美国，护理已被列为导致与工作相关的肌肉骨骼损伤的十大职业之一。在床上不断地手动抬起和重新安置病人，并将他们从一张床转移到另一张床，已被认为是导致护士与工作相关的肌肉骨骼损伤的主要原因。我们认为，先进的机器人技术可以帮助护士完成劳动密集型任务，防止医务人员和护士的肌肉骨骼损伤。在本文中，我们介绍了Hstar Technologies的第二代机器人护理助理(RoNA)系统RoNA。与2011年发布的第一代RoNA系统相比，RoNA拥有更强大的手臂，可以举起500磅重的病人。RoNA配备了许多智能传感器，使护士能够轻松直观地指导它执行病人的抬起。本文还讨论了RoNA系统的设计改进、控制系统和软件体系结构。

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