Design and Development of Autonomous Disinfecting Embedded Systems for COVID-19

COVID-19疫情期间的主要挑战之一是频繁消毒。这对于医院和长期护理等场所非常重要。在大多数地方，人类操作员进行清洁，但由于个人防护设备（PPE）短缺和COVID-19的许多未知因素，这可能会导致他们感染病毒。Cyberworks Robotics拥有工业级的自动清洁机器，对于应对COVID-19非常有用。 本项目的目标是改进Cyberworks Robotics在现有（a）医院使用的各种类型的地板消毒机（例如湿地板擦洗器）、（B）高强度紫外线消毒机和（c）化学雾消毒机上的技术。在这次合作中，我们的目标是研究（a）增加与我们的附加技术兼容的消毒系统型号的数量，以及（B）增加核心附加导航技术本身的性能规格。这种改进将允许医院以比人类清洁者可能的更频繁的基础对医院表面进行消毒，并且还同时通过确保一些表面不会由于人为错误和疏忽而被遗漏来提高清洁质量。

One of the major challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic is frequent disinfecting. This is very critical for places like hospitals and long term care. In most places, human operators perform the cleaning but it may cause them infected with the virus because of the shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and many of the unknowns of COVID-19. Cyberworks Robotics has industry-grade autonomous cleaning machines that can be very useful to deal-with COVID-19. The goal of this project is to improve Cyberworks Robotics technology on existing (a) floor disinfection machines (e.g. wet floor scrubbers) of various types used in hospitals, (b) high-intensity UV disinfection machines, and (c) chemical mist disinfection machines. In this collaboration, we aim to investigate to (a) increase the number of models of disinfection systems to which our add-on technology is compatible, and (b) increase the performance specifications of the core add-on navigation technology itself. This improvement would allow hospitals to disinfect the hospital surfaces on a more frequent basis than is possible with human cleaners and also simultaneously to increase the quality of cleaning by ensuring that some surfaces are not missed due to human error and neglect.