TY - GEN
T1 - Autonomous Mobile Robots in Hospital Logistics
AU - Fragapane, Giuseppe
AU - Hvolby, Hans Henrik
AU - Sgarbossa, Fabio
AU - Strandhagen, Jan Ola
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Regional Development Fund in Denmark for supporting the project ?Reference architecture and open standards?. Finally, the authors gratefully acknowledge the case hospitals that made it possible to carry out this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The recent advances in technology have increased flexibility in indoor mobility and human-robot collaboration, opening up new opportunities to perform material handling tasks, especially in narrow, dynamic environments, such as hospitals. Sensing devices, powerful on-board computers, artificial intelligence, and collaborative equipment allow autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to drive and fulfill material handling activities autonomously. In hospitals, material handling activities are widely performed manually. This study investigates five innovative applications of AMRs, highlighting their benefits compared with other material handling systems applied in hospitals, and presenting research needs. The study concludes that AMRs can support and collaborate closely with hospital personnel to increase value-added time for patient care.
AB - The recent advances in technology have increased flexibility in indoor mobility and human-robot collaboration, opening up new opportunities to perform material handling tasks, especially in narrow, dynamic environments, such as hospitals. Sensing devices, powerful on-board computers, artificial intelligence, and collaborative equipment allow autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to drive and fulfill material handling activities autonomously. In hospitals, material handling activities are widely performed manually. This study investigates five innovative applications of AMRs, highlighting their benefits compared with other material handling systems applied in hospitals, and presenting research needs. The study concludes that AMRs can support and collaborate closely with hospital personnel to increase value-added time for patient care.
KW - Autonomous mobile robots
KW - Hospital
KW - Logistics
KW - Material handling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090170419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-57993-7_76
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-57993-7_76
M3 - Article in proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85090170419
SN - 9783030579920
T3 - I F I P Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 672
EP - 679
BT - Advances in Production Management Systems. The Path to Digital Transformation and Innovation of Production Management Systems - IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Lalic, Bojan
A2 - Marjanovic, Ugljesa
A2 - Majstorovic, Vidosav
A2 - von Cieminski, Gregor
A2 - Romero, David
PB - Springer VS
T2 - IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2020
Y2 - 30 August 2020 through 3 September 2020
ER -