Track: Modeling and Simulation

Abstract

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary for all to follow social distancing, wear masks, and sanitize regularly. As of now, the human workforce is required to sanitize the hospitals and is considered as one of the challenging tasks due to the high risk of contraction. Hence, it is important to reduce human involvement and bring in robotic systems for such requirements. Utilizing robots not only decreases the risk of spreading the coronavirus but also ensures no other harmful pathogens can transfer between humans. As medical workers are more exposed to this virus and are at greater risk of contracting it, these robots can be used instead for sanitizing the rooms of the affected patients or of isolation wards. In the paper, a prototype of a Hospital Sanitization Robot Vehicle (HSRV) using Arduino is presented that can help the hospital staff to sanitize any part of the hospital through a remote-control mechanism without putting their lives in danger. The robotic model can not only be used in hospitals but also at homes, COVID care centers, and quarantine centers where symptomatic or asymptomatic people are under isolation.