Anti-Covi-Bot: A Robot to Combat COVID-19

ABSTRACT

As per researchers worldwide, the practice of social distancing and wearing masks may have to be continued till the end of 2022 or even after considering the deadly and unpredictable nature of the COVID-19 virus that has gripped our world. In spite of all the rules and regulations in place we still find people breaking the rules. Also, it is to be noted that many officials who are tasked with enforcing the rules have either been severely affected or have lost their lives. Our work focuses on creating a holonomic robot, that can detect violations to mask and social distancing rules and generate alerts. Our work uses OpenCV and CNN model for face mask detection and pre-trained Mobile-Net Single Shot Object Detection (SSD) model to detect people and check if social distancing is adhered to. © 2021 IEEE.