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.

这种合作伙伴关系对创新 - 技术翻译（PFI-TT）项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将通过开发基于无人机的医疗保健装置设备来实现，该设备将有助于维护具有慢性病的老年人的生活质量，并让他们生活在自己的家庭中，同时获得高质量的医疗保健。如果成功，则期望护理交付远程医疗无人机：i）对需要立即关注的医疗保健需求进行快速回应； ii）在家中启用改善和具有成本效益的质量，以及iii）减少医疗机构的医疗保健组织的收入损失。拟议的产品旨在应对社会挑战，例如缺乏优质医疗保健提供者，获得医疗保健以及对老年人制度化护理的财务影响。拟议的创新预计将有助于减轻社会经济差异，并为全科医生和专家提供居住在农村，城市和郊区的患者的访问权，而与住宅类型无关。拟议的项目旨在开发，测试和展示一个可行的无人机原型，可以安全地将医疗保健提供给其居住地的人们，并在室外和室内环境中可靠地运营。这项拟议的研究的目标是：i）使用所需的软件和硬件功能开发护理交付无人机原型； ii）为护理交付无人机用户开发接口； iii）测试和验证护理输送无人机的原型。拟议的工作旨在解决与无人机室内导航，人类机器人互动和远程医疗系统有关的几个技术障碍。开发用于无人机近距离，室内本地化，避免障碍的软件功能以及针对时间延迟和链接丢失的稳健性的监督智能控制，这是该项目的一些研究目标。此外，该研究将解决人类无人机/人类 - 核健康系统互动界面的问题，以提高系统效率。结果将有助于揭示设计远程处理和其他平民应用的界面和用户无人机交互的界面的基本原则。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。