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Due to COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasing demand for mobile robots to substitute human in disinfection tasks. New generations of disinfection robots could be developed to navigate in high-risk, high-touch areas. Public spaces, such as airports, schools, malls, hospitals, workplaces and factories could benefit from robotic disinfection in terms of task accuracy, cost, and execution time. The aim of this work is to integrate and analyse the performance of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, as global path planner, coupled with Dynamic Window Approach (DWA) for reactive collision avoidance using a ROS-based software prototyping tool. This paper introduces our solution - a SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and optimal path planning-based approach for performing autonomous indoor disinfection work. This ROS-based solution could be easily transferred to different hardware platforms to substitute human to conduct disinfection work in different real contaminated environments.
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Robots have been helpful assistants for decades in the professional sector, but recently they have become an essential part of our personal lives, too. Daily tasks such as making reservations or even teaching pupils have been substituted by service robots, which have grown rapidly across industry towards healthcare, cleaning, agriculture, logistics inspection and maintenance. The paper provides the valuable insights into possible collaborative scenario categories and the challenges which utilizes perception, communication, reactive control based approaches to motion generation, learning, optimization, robot design and explainable robotics. This paper presents an overview of current collaborative robotics trends with particular emphasis on the service role of cobots within Industry 4.0, education, home, shopping assistant and travel robotics. Additionally, a certain number of the collaborative service robot applications as well as the healthcare service robot or rehabilitation exeskeleton robots, or COVID-19 robot applications are shown here. © 2021 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Last year and part of this year, we have witnessed a large number of people being infected, and subsequently died, as a result of the corona virus COVID-19. The physical environment plays an important role in transmitting the infection. We must urgently find a solution and answer to all situations in society that have a detrimental effect on human health. When it comes to virus transmission, it is necessary to disinfect both the body and the room. The development of new technologies leads to the development of service robots that are implemented for disinfection in the medical institutions. The paper presents a review of the implementation of service robots that use ultraviolet light for disinfection in medical institutions. UV disinfection of surface with service robots is one of the most promising new technologies for several reasons, of which some are: faster treatment in the room, higher productivity, highly effective treatments, whole room treatment, one room treatment, etc. In addition to service robots for indoor disinfection, service robots for disinfection of outdoor surfaces have also been developed. New materials and technologies are now being introduced into medical facilities in an attempt to reduce the ecological pathway of disease transmission. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.