Modelling a TurtleBot3 Based Delivery System for a Smart Hospital in Gazebo

Abstract

The design of a “smart hospital” environment is described in this paper. Mobile ground robots perform transportation tasks between multiple stations located in different rooms while navigating in an environment with moving objects such as humans and other mobile robots. The robot is equipped with a distance sensor (LIDAR), based on the indicators of which objects are detected and the robot is localized. Robots can be assigned tasks to be executed through a centralized interface. Tasks are assigned to a specific robot, and, depending on the type of task, the robot is autonomously directed to the station associated with the task in the building. We are considering the concept of defining possible robot behaviors as a finite set of states with certain transitions. To test the system, a hospital map was constructed in a Gazebo simulation.