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Smart delivery and retrieval of swab collection kit for COVID-19 test using autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Physical Communication ( IF 2.2 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-05 , DOI: 10.1016/j.phycom.2021.101373
Fahad Saeed 1 , Amjad Mehmood 2, 3 , Muhammad Faran Majeed 1 , Carsten Maple 2 , Khalid Saeed 1 , Muhammad Kashif Khattak 4 , Huihui Wang 5 , Gregory Epiphaniou 2
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Drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are one of the highly emerging technologies of the modern day. Due to their small size, flying capabilities, and complex machinery, drones can be deployed in diverse fields, including agriculture, sports, entertainment, parcel delivery, disaster management, search and rescue, emergency medicine, and healthcare. In case of medical emergency, timely delivery of the required emergency kit is very important. This is often not possible in many underdeveloped countries due to lack of resources, traffic jams, congestion or challenging routes. Also, in times like today’s when the world is hit with COVID-19 pandemic, the movement is very limited due to lockdowns and emergency. In such case, drones can be deployed to deliver the emergency kits and collect samples for tests. This may save someones life as well as time and financial resources. In third world countries, the COVID-19 has spread chaos because of very limited hospitals, resources and staff. Therefore, it is difficult for the government and health officials to accommodate every patient or give him/her the care that he/she needs. Amidst the fear of pandemic, everyone is trying to undergo tests for COVID-19 which is difficult to handle In our research, we have proposed a solution that comprises smartphone application with the help of a patient sending a call to a healthcare centre for delivering emergency kit. The kit contains equipment with the help of which a person can collect swab. The drone takes the swab samples back to the healthcare centre for tests. We have introduced an optimization factor as a baseline for future studies of this kind. We have further conducted field experiments to test our proposed scheme. The results have shown that drones can be quite efficient in collecting samples and delivering emergency kits.



中文翻译:

使用自主无人机智能交付和检索用于 COVID-19 测试的拭子收集套件

无人机,也称为无人驾驶飞行器 (UAV),是现代高度新兴的技术之一。由于其体积小、飞行能力强、机械复杂,无人机可以部署在各个领域,包括农业、体育、娱乐、包裹递送、灾难管理、搜索和救援、急救医学和医疗保健。在医疗紧急情况下,及时交付所需的应急包非常重要。由于缺乏资源、交通拥堵、拥堵或具有挑战性的路线,这在许多不发达国家通常是不可能的。此外,在当今世界遭受 COVID-19 大流行袭击的时代,由于封锁和紧急情况,运动非常有限。在这种情况下,可以部署无人机来运送应急包并收集样本进行测试。这可以挽救某人的生命以及时间和财务资源。在第三世界国家,由于医院、资源和工作人员非常有限,COVID-19 传播了混乱。因此,政府和卫生官员很难容纳每一位患者或为他/她提供他/她需要的护理。在对大流行的恐惧中,每个人都试图接受难以处理的 COVID-19 测试在我们的研究中,我们提出了一种解决方案,其中包括智能手机应用程序,并帮助患者向医疗中心发送紧急呼叫成套工具。该套件包含一个人可以在其帮助下收集拭子的设备。无人机将拭子样本带回医疗中心进行测试。我们引入了一个优化因子作为未来此类研究的基线。我们进一步进行了现场实验来测试我们提出的方案。结果表明,无人机在收集样本和运送应急包方面非常有效。

更新日期:2021-07-22
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