Computer-aided methods for combating Covid-19 in prevention, detection, and service provision approaches

B Rezazadeh, P Asghari, AM Rahmani - Neural Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
The infectious disease Covid-19 has been causing severe social, economic, and human
suffering across the globe since 2019. The countries have utilized different strategies in the …

The Integration of Robotics in Proactive Healthcare: Embracing Proactive Medicine for Enhanced Patient Care and Ethical Considerations

G Kaspute, A Zebrauskas, U Prentice, R Laurutis… - Current Robotics …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose of the review The use of robots in the health system is inevitable and covers many
fields and scopes. Therefore, their organization and categorization are very important …

Easy-to-deploy combined nasal/throat swab robot with sampling dexterity and resistance to external interference

W Chen, Z Chen, Y Lu, H Cao, J Zhou… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots have been used extensively in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic since its
outbreak. One prominent direction is the use of robots for swab sampling, which not only …

A novel pneumatic gripper driven by combination of soft fingers and bellows actuator for flexible gras**

M Cao, Y Sun, J Zhang, Z Ying - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2023 - Elsevier
As end-effector to grasp agricultural products without damage in the field of agricultural
robot. A soft gripper is proposed for picking spherical fruit. It is composed of three soft …

NA-OR: A path optimization method for manipulators via node attraction and obstacle repulsion

GZ **ao, T Wu, R Weng, RX Zhang, YJ Han… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
This paper is concerned with the issue of path optimization for manipulators in multi-obstacle
environments. Aimed at overcoming the deficiencies of the sampling-based path planning …

The LINGCAI-II system: A sampling robotic system for autonomous oropharyngeal swab sampling

Z Wang, S Li, X He, R Chen, L Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fight against infectious diseases is a permanent theme in the history of humans,
especially the pandemic of COVID-19 made a severe impact on the world. The sampling …

Development of an inherently safe nasopharyngeal swab sampling robot using a force restriction mechanism

CY Maeng, J Yoon, DY Kim, J Lee… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demand for autonomous nasopharyngeal swab sampling robot systems is increasing
owing to the recent outbreak of the respiratory virus pandemic. To protect the medical staff …

Robotic Eye-in-hand Visual Servo Axially Aligning Nasopharyngeal Swabs with the Nasal Cavity

PQ Lee, JS Zelek, K Mombaur - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.12437, 2024 - arxiv.org
The nasopharyngeal (NP) swab test is a method for collecting cultures to diagnose for
different types of respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. Delegating this task to robots …

Intuitive remote robotic nasal sampling by orientation control with variable rcm in limited space

M Takeuchi, Y Hironaka, T Aoyama… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When performing polymerase chain reaction testing, collecting nasopharyngeal swabs from
patients is necessary. Hence, the development of a noncontact specimen collection system …