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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused unprecedented global health problems, and the disease’s spread rate is extremely high. It spreads from infected people (COVID-19 positive) to others via droplets from the mouth or nose when they cough, sneeze, speak, sing, or take deep breaths. Frontline fighters of healthcare organizations such as doctors, nurses, and other medical staff cannot have direct contact with COVID-19 patients in isolation room without personal protective equipment (PPE). Hence, hospital workers have to face different types of problems in distributing foods, medicines, and disposal of waste. An Automatic Line Follower Robot (ALFR) is designed and implemented for COVID-19 patients which is capable of serving infected patients in an isolation room. The main contribution of this paper is to serve essential medicines and foods from the hospital staff and serve it to the patients following the black line. The ALFR also proposes a system which maintains an emergency wireless communication protocol between doctors and patients. It also collects waste from a specified basket and damps it to a proper place. Finally, it can sanitize the isolated room with the help of a disinfectant machine which is assembled in ALFR. ALFR’s performance has significantly improved, and it can successfully complete all tasks.
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Kabir, M.A., Sarker, M.J., Hossain, T., Jerin, M.I.J., Ali, M.H. (2022). Design and Implementation of Automatic Line Follower Robot for Assistance of COVID-19 Patients. In: Karrupusamy, P., Balas, V.E., Shi, Y. (eds) Sustainable Communication Networks and Application. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 93. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6605-6_17
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