Kwon Youngsun Shin Soyeon Yang, Kyon-Mo Park, Seongah Shin Soomin Jeon, Hwawoo Kim, Kijung Yun, Guhnoo Park, Sang Yong Byun, Jeewon Kang, Sang Hoon Song, Kyoung-Ho Kim, Do ik Kim, Dong Hwan Seo, Kap-Ho Kwak, Sona Lim, Yoon seob 2024-01-12T02:44:49Z 2024-01-12T02:44:49Z 2023-10-25 2023-10-04 2153-0858 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/76368 Isolation wards operate in quarantine rooms to prevent cross-contamination caused by infectious diseases. Behind the benefits, medical personnel can have the infection risk from patients and the heavy workload due to the isolation. This work proposes a robot-assisted system to alleviate these problems in isolation wards. We conducted a survey about the medical staff’s difficulties and envisioning robots. Using the investigation result, we devised three valuable services using two kinds of heterogeneous robots: telemedicine, emergency alert, and delivery services by care robots and delivery robots. Our system also provides user-interactive components such as a dashboard for medical staff and a patient app for inpatients. To manage the services efficiently, we suggest the robotic system based on a central control server and a hierarchical management architecture. In evaluation, the user study reviews usability and future directions of our work. IEEE/RSJ Heterogeneous Robot-Assisted Services in Isolation Wards: A System Development and Usability Study Conference 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341857 1 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.8069 - 8076 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 8069 8076 US Detroit, MI 2023-10-01 2023 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS) 001136907802049 2-s2.0-85182526019