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Framework and Modeling of a Multi-robot Simulator for Hospital Logistics

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Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 4

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An autonomous mobile robot has opened a new era of hospital logistics. Mobile robots will substitute human courier by transporting goods within the hospital day and night. Multiple robots will be deployed at a hospital and coordinating these robots will increase the efficiency of delivery. This paper introduces the framework of the simulator which enables testing coordination algorithms of multiple robots. The simulator models hospital environment with the hospital-specific delivery demand as well as the specification of robots used for the delivery. The outcome of the simulator is the performance of applied task allocation algorithms, which includes overall delivery time and waiting time of delivery tasks.

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This work was supported by the Robot R&D program of MOTIE/KEIT. [10051155, The Development of Robot Based Logistics Systems Applicable to Hospital-wide Environment]

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  1. Human Robot Interaction Research Team Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, 305-700, South Korea

    Seohyun Jeon & Jaeyeon Lee

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  1. Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Fakhri Karray

  3. School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

    Jun Jo

  4. Center for Intelligent Technologies, Technical University of Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia

    Peter Sincak

  5. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Hyun Myung

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Jeon, S., Lee, J. (2017). Framework and Modeling of a Multi-robot Simulator for Hospital Logistics. In: Kim, JH., Karray, F., Jo, J., Sincak, P., Myung, H. (eds) Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 4. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 447. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31293-4_17

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