PRE2023 3 Group7

Pill dispensing robot

Word document with our report

Team and interests

Quinten Liu, 1842471, q.m.liu@student.tue.nl

Fenna Sigmond, 1696947, f.e.sigmond@student.tue.nl

Thijs Frints, 1441523, t.g.g.frints@student.tue.nl

Daniel Joaquim Ho, 1534254, d.joaquim.ho@student.tue.nl

Sven de Gruyter, 1857657, s.d.gruyter@student.tue.nl

Sjoerd van de Goor, 1557815, s.v.d.goor@student.tue.nl

Interests:

• Medical Imaging
• Physical product
• AI
• Tangible / functional product
• Danger detection or prevention
• Healthcare or elderly care

Target Audience

Households with one (or more) people that have trouble consistently taking and understanding their medicine.

Product Overview

A robot which dispenses pills on a specific schedule and can inform about and answer questions about medical usage, which may be interacted with by speech, and buttons, and which talks back and provides subtitles on the spoken texts using a screen.

Preliminary Functional Requirements

Software

• AI integration to understand speech
• AI integration to process natural language inquiries about medicine in the specific context of the patient
• AI integration to process natural language outputs to spoken language
• Software to memorize and on time inform about medicine intake
• Remember which medicine was taken
• Admin-client distinguishment in access to schedule

Hardware

• Easily swappable medicine cartridges for about 4 types of medicine
• Dispensing function
• Speaker, screen, microphone, buttons
• Small and light
• Probably stationary
• Non-intrusive

Informal planning

Week 1		Week 2		Week 3		Week 4
Literature review + summaries Relevant groups’ work	A A	Literature discussion Functional requirements Target audience & problem	A	Designing Preliminary software Components + feedback + order needed		Finalize components Software prototype 3D modelling of product
Week 5		Week 6		Week 7		Week 8
Software done Assembly done 3D Printing done		Iterate on software or add app Solve problems		Solve problems Prepare presentation Begin cleaning up wiki		Present Clean up wiki

A = All, Q = Quinten, F = Fenna, T = Thijs, D = Daniel, Sv = Sven, Sj = Sjoerd

Literature reviews (Paste all articles here eventually)

Goals of review:

• Find state of the art
• Find what was done; what worked, what did not work. Perhaps reach out to the members of groups of previous years to ask for further details
• Medical technology state
• Pill dispensing specifics
• Elderly technology interaction
• Privacy and ethics of the technology

Literature Review of already existing medicine dispensers

Existing Products, Specifications, and Research and Regulation

General Literature Review of comparisons, effectiveness, and ethics regarding MAPs

Literature research Sven

Time spent

Week 1:

All	1st meeting (2h)
Quinten	Researching SotA (2h); Finding and reading relevant papers regarding medication dispensers (3h); Finding and reading relevant papers regarding ethics and elderly care (2h)
Fenna
Thijs	Looking at already functioning medicine dispensers (1.5h); Reading papers on dispensing robots and summarizing them (4.5h); look at ethics for medication rules (0.5)
Daniel	Research what has been done/state of the art (3.5hr); Dispensing Specifications (1.5hrs); EU regulations, medical technology state, privacy and ethics of the tech (3.5hr);
Sven	Research on state of the art/dispenser mechanisms (1,5h); Research AI implementation by notifications (1,5h), naming requirements/specifications (1h)
Sjoerd	Setup wiki (2h)

Week 2:

All	Feedback meeting and evaluation (1h)
Quinten
Fenna
Thijs
Daniel
Sven
Sjoerd