PFI-TT: Care Delivery Telehealth Drone

PFI-TT：护理服务远程医疗无人机

• 批准号: 2234561
• 负责人: Manish Kumar
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234561&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; TT; Care; Delivery; Telehealth

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project will be achieved by developing a drone-based healthcare delivery device that would help preserve the quality of life of older adults with chronic medical conditions and allow them to live in their homes while obtaining high quality healthcare. If successful, the care delivery telehealth drone is expected to: i) enable quick response to healthcare needs that need immediate attention; ii) enable delivery of improved and cost-effective quality at home, and iii) reduce loss of revenue by healthcare organizations by diminishing no-shows and cancellations of medical appointments. The proposed product is designed to address societal challenges such as shortage of quality healthcare providers, access to healthcare, and financial impact of institutionalized care of older adults. The proposed innovation is expected to help alleviate the socioeconomic disparities and provide general practitioners and specialists access to patients residing in rural, urban, and suburban areas irrespective of type of dwelling. The proposed project aims to develop, test, and demonstrate a viable drone prototype that can safely deliver healthcare to people at their place of residence and operate both in outdoor and indoor environment reliably. The goals of this proposed study are: i) developing the care delivery drone prototype with required software and hardware capabilities; ii) developing interfaces for users of the care delivery drone; and iii) testing and validating the prototype of the care delivery drone. The proposed work is intended to solve several technological barriers related to indoor navigation of drones, human-robot interaction, and telehealth systems. Developing software capabilities for teleoperation of drones, indoor localization, obstacle avoidance, and supervisory intelligent control for robustness against time delays and lost link are some of the research objectives of this project. Furthermore, the study will address issues at the interface of human-drone/human-telehealth system interaction to increase system efficiency. The results will help uncover the underlying principles of designing interfaces for teleoperation and user-drone interaction for telehealth and other civilian applications.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该创新合作伙伴关系 - 技术翻译 (PFI-TT) 项目将通过开发基于无人机的医疗保健提供设备来实现更广泛的影响/商业潜力，该设备将有助于保持患有慢性病的老年人的生活质量，并让他们能够在家中生活，同时获得高质量的医疗保健。如果成功，护理服务远程医疗无人机预计将： i) 能够快速响应需要立即关注的医疗保健需求； ii) 能够在家中提供改进且具有成本效益的质量，以及 iii) 通过减少缺席和取消医疗预约来减少医疗机构的收入损失。拟议的产品旨在解决社会挑战，例如优质医疗保健提供者的短缺、医疗保健的获取以及老年人机构化护理的财务影响。拟议的创新预计将有助于缓解社会经济差距，并使全科医生和专家能够接触到居住在农村、城市和郊区的患者，无论其居住类型如何。拟议项目旨在开发、测试和演示一种可行的无人机原型，该原型可以安全地为居住地的人们提供医疗服务，并在室外和室内环境中可靠地运行。这项拟议研究的目标是：i）开发具有所需软件和硬件功能的护理交付无人机原型； ii) 为护理递送无人机的用户开发界面； iii) 测试和验证护理交付无人机的原型。拟议的工作旨在解决与无人机室内导航、人机交互和远程医疗系统相关的几个技术障碍。该项目的一些研究目标是开发无人机远程操作、室内定位、避障和监控智能控制的软件功能，以实现针对时间延迟和链路丢失的鲁棒性。此外，该研究还将解决人与无人机/人与远程医疗系统交互界面的问题，以提高系统效率。研究结果将有助于揭示远程医疗和其他民用应用的远程操作和用户与无人机交互设计界面的基本原则。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。