D-Bot: A Food Serving Robot During Pandemic Situation

Abstract

In this paper, an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that delivers food to patients in hospitals during COVID-19 pandemic situation was proposed. AMRs are one of the tools that can minimize direct physical contact between healthcare worker and patients to prevent infection. As some of the hospital logistic tasks are handled by the AMRs, more manpower can be distributed to more important tasks. This is a capstone project developed by a group of students from the Faculty of Engineering, at UCSI University. The project was completed with a concept design, a virtual prototype, and computer simulation of the robot.