Development of Autonomous Mobile Service Robot with Safety Standard for Cart Moving Applications in Hospitals

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have now been used in various applications in

order to assist people in many situations, e.g. transportation and certain services in hospitals and

factories. As a service robot, interaction between human and robots is unavoidable. The

interaction can be occurred in various forms, e.g. tele-presence and human-robot collaboration.

Human and robots work closely with each other resulting in physical risks that need to be

managed carefully. A number of research works of AMRs have been conducted in recent years

as an increase in demand and technology viability. However, as the development of primary

functions is the first priority in development phase, safety concern is usually ignored. In this

research, the safety standard ISO 13482, associated with personal care robots, is considered in

the design phase. Hence, the risk will be minimized. In this case, the service robots is developed

in the context of hospitals, especially for the cart moving operation assistance.