HORUS

Robotic inspection of the health personnel ́s protective suits for the treatment of patients in extreme isolation including Ebola

Main researcher: C. Balaguer

Ebola web

Description

Highly contagious diseases are treated by very strict procedures of WHO. In the case of Ebola, which have a fatality rate that can reach 90%, both patients and medical staff should follow a much more strict protocol which in some phases is undefined. One of the most delicate tasks is the removal of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the changing room after visiting the ill. It may be, as has been so sadly, that the suit is broken and/or contaminated with traces of blood, vomit, urine and, in general, various fluids.

Precisely for this reason the objective of the project is to develop robotic technologies to ensure the integrity of the protective clothing of health workers treating Ebola.

Source code at GitHub:

Entries:
Flexible Field Factory for Construction Industry
Assembly Automation. num. 2 , vol. 33 , pages: 175 – 183 , 2013
S. Martinez A. Jardon Juan G. Victores
Building industrialization: robotized assembly of modular products
Assembly Automation- Emerald Group Publishing Ltd . num. 2 , vol. 28 , pages: 134 – 142 , 2008
S. Martinez A. Jardon

Entries:
User-Oriented Interactive Building Design
23rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2006), Tokyo, Japan
S. Martinez

Entries:
Robotics and Automation in Construction
IN-TEH , ISBN: 978-953-7619-13, 2008
M. Abderrahim
Robotics and Automation in Construction
chapter: Trends in Robotics and Automation in Construction pages: 1 – 20. IN-TECH , ISBN: 978-953-7619-13, 2008
M. Abderrahim C. Balaguer