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:
Towards Fully Automated Tunnel Inspection: A Survey and Future Trends
31st International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (ISARC 2014), 2014, Sydney, Australia
R. Montero Juan G. Victores S. Martinez A. Jardon
Autonomous Robotic System with Tunnel Inspection Tool Positioning
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), 2017, Taipei, Taiwan
E. Menéndez Juan G. Victores R. Montero

Entries:
Robocity2030 13th Workshop EU robotic projects results
chapter: The Robot-Spect EU Project: Autonomous Robotic Tunnel Inspection pages: 91 – 100. UC3M , ISBN: 978-84-608-4160-9, 2015
R. Montero Juan G. Victores E. Menéndez