PSLB: Portable Sanitization Locomotive Bot

Abstract

There is a need of developing portable, cost effective, handheld, low-powered, easily maneuverable, easy to use and yet very effective sanitization bot that can help disinfect indoor environments so as to act as a preventive measure in the dissemination of the virus, inclusive of COVID-19, at a time when the number of affected individuals owing to the global pandemic is growing exponentially. We developed a bot, Portable Sanitization Locomotive Bot-PSLB, on similar grounds that can maneuver indoors as per the path laid by the user. We ran field trials in regards to how accurately it can follow the bends with respect to the speed at which it navigates and the results have been very promising so as to have a commercial deployment.