Robot for Delivery of Medicines to Patients Using Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Abstract

In view of the safety and medical concerns of patients and the persons delivering medicines on a timely fashion, robotic delivery of medicines in wards of hospitals using artificial intelligence techniques is investigated in this work. The robot traverses the wards where the medicine needs to be delivered using intelligence-based algorithm based on sensors and indicator marked in the wards, in the best possible shortest path and exits the ward. The program would ensure that the robot does not collide with other robots and humans in the path and also would search for the indicator where the medicine would have to be delivered on a timely fashion. This way, we would ensure that contagious diseases are not transferred when medicine delivery is done and also compared to the same with laborious process being done manually. This proposed method functionality and algorithm is tested on a prototype arena and was proven to be successful using a firebird V robot in the laboratory for the algorithm. The proposed method saves time and also human resources and is easy to operate with external monitoring from the hospital reception.