Volume 14, Number 2
Development of an Intelligent Vital Sign Monitoring Robot System
Authors
Yu-Ping Liao Wen-Hsiang Yeh, Hong-Xin Wu, and Yi-Lin Cheng, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
Abstract
We want to solve the problem that the elderly or heart patients will not miss the golden time for rescue incase of sudden death or emergency event at home. Therefore, this work proposes an intelligent vital signmonitoring robot system. Considering data protection and privacy issues, the heart rate of the elderly or heart patient can be measured and monitored through the millimetre wave radar on an autonomous mobilerobot (AMR). Additionally, by object detection technology, the infrared thermal imager is integrated todetect the temperature of a person’s head. The measured head temperature, thermal image and heart ratedata can be uploaded to cloud database with blockchain technology to prevent data tampering. We develop an interrupt method for multi-target navigationof AMR to interrupt the patrol when a custom triggersituation happened and to run the interrupt process for vital signs measurement. While the interrupt process is completed, the robot will patrol again. When the system detects an abnormal situation, familymembers or caregivers can be notified through IFTTT service and Line notification messages. The systemcan help us to monitor the situations of elderly and provide response in time when a sudden emergencyevent or health crisis happened.
Keywords
Remote vital sign monitoring, millimeter wave radar, non-contact vital sign monitoring, IoT, YOLOv7, Robot Operating System, Autonomous Mobile Robot, thermal imager, Firebase