Design of Indoor Disinfecting Intelligent Robot Based on ESP32 Chip

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, comprehensive and thorough environmental disinfection is a very important issue. In order to reduce personnel contact and reduce the risk of cross-infection, this paper designs an indoor disinfecting intelligent robot that can realize large-scale combined disinfection of disinfectant and ultraviolet. The whole system comprises of five main parts: control center, running control module, disinfection module, information processing module, and power module. The control center mainly adopts ESP32micro-controller to achieve the connection and control of all parts of the system. The running control module mainly controls the forward, backward, and rotation of the device and ensures that the system follows the expected path during the disinfection. The disinfection module uses liquid disinfectant and ultraviolet irradiation to inhibit the bacteria and kill COVID-19. Information processing module is responsible for the information interaction between the system and the data center. The proposed system transmits data through Wi-Fi and MQTT protocol, and realizes basic functions such as positioning, path planning, and disinfection. The proposed system can effectively solve the problem of personal contact and infection in the process of manual disinfection and have nice application value. © 2022 IEEE.

2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19): Toward a Novel Design for Smart Waste Management Robot

With the rise and spread of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), also called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, there is a global health emergency (SARS-CoV-2). Because of the epidemic of new coronavirus disease-2019, clinics and institutions' isolation facilities have generated a massive amount of clinical waste (COVID-19). The biggest contributors to waste volume are personal protective equipment, test strips, medical facemasks, and hand gloves. As garbage functions as a carrier for SARS-CoV-2, it could result in the exponential spread of this devastating disease. Furthermore, proper COVID-waste disposal is urgently required to reduce the risk of pandemic propagation and to ensure long-Term treatment of the disease environmental threats. In order to combat the lack of specialized antiviral therapy, it is critical to create new balance techniques and guarantee that existing ones are effective in the field. The objective of this study is to design and develop an intelligent Robot that can collect medical waste from COVID-19 isolation wards and then dispose it of in an environment friendly manner. Furthermore, the focus of this research is to use IoT-based robot technology to design sprinkling with UV devices for antiseptic-disinfection. This study may be useful to avoid and control the pandemic of compatible episodes in the future. © 2022 IEEE.