PRE2015 4 Groep3

Members of this group:

• Maurits Ambags - 0771400
• Wesly Chu - 088994
• Arthur Geel - 0907552
• Jasper Sparla - 0844019
• Twan Weernink - 0851703

Potential ideas for this project

• Autonomous Refueling Stations
• Guidance system for elderly/demented people
• Cleaning robots for in café's/bars
• Delivery robots in buildings (Packages, but also for food/drinks)
• Cooking robots
• Agriculture robots (Both for small greenhouses as for big fields)
• Window cleaning robots

Introduction

In present day, people are using more medicine than ever. Patients are expected to take the right amount of their medicine at the right time, often multiple different ones per day. Each of these activities is a process that can easily go wrong, which has the potential to do some serious damage. As we get older, we generally use multiple medicines at the same time, yet our memory becomes worse. The budget cuts in health care result in doctors and pharmacists having less time for each patient, which means they might not understand exactly what they are taking. With the rush of internet and communication sciences, a lot of the patients files are being converted to digital files, yet not everyone is using a standardized format, which means communication can be an issue.

A report that the dutch government has released in 2013, entitled ‘polyfarmacie bij kwetsbare ouderen’ [citation needed], states that over one million people aged 65 and over take five different types of medication every single day. When we expand our view to those aged 75 and over, we see that 20 percent of those take nine different types of medication every day. When you combine that with the fact that up to 40 percent of the elderly receive insufficient information about their medication, an over- or underconsumption of medicine is the frightening result. Often, the medicine old people take are quite potent, leading to hazardous situations when taken incorrectly.

Finally, when we consider the prevalence of dementia amongst the elderly, of which over thirty percent of the people older than 80 years old suffer, it is clear that there is a need for a tool that helps people with their medication, both for when they need to take their medicine, but also as a safeguard to prevent dangerous combinations.

Requirements

[update needed]

Our intention is to provide a robotic support to refuel vehicles. We wish to provide an external tool, as opposed to integrating this robot into the fuel pump. This should allow pump owners to more easily adapt to this technology without significantly restructuring their buildings, as well as come at a lower cost overall for new pumps. This robot should be able to lift a fuel hose out of its holder, locate the vehicle's fuel inlet, possibly remove the cap of this inlet and insert the nozzle. After the tank has been filled, the robot places the hose back into its holder and (possibly) notifies the car owner.

In order to allow the robot to move about fuel hoses, we will need a mechanism for grabbing a hose. Current fuel hoses are designed in a way that humans can grab them easily. It seems overly complicated to mimic this behaviour, as making a robotic hand is a different challenge in itself. We see more potential in the use of magnets here. The robot would have a magnet that connects to a metal plate on the fuel hose. This would require some modification to the fuel nozzle, but leaves the rest of the pump as is.

USE Aspects

User

A better surveilance system will mean medicine usage will be safer

Enterprise

An automated medicine storage system could mean a decrease in time pharmacists need to spend on handing out medicine

Stakeholders

[update needed] The stakeholders in this scenario are primarily the owners/employees of fuel pumps, and the customers that use them. One could argue that, since these changes affect the safety of all car users (which happens to be the vast majority of the adult society), this impacts society as a whole, but we will only consider customers for now.

The employees will see a more efficient (and hopefully safer) environment at their pump. They may now have some extra tasks regarding robot maintenance, but there are also benefits, as the employees are not alone anymore in supervising the pump. Pump owners may see an increase in the profitability of their pump, since the efficient refueling may allow them to service the same amount of customers with fewer pumps, or service more with their current setup. Also, customers will spend more time inside the store, which may lead to more store purchases.

Customers will see their time spent at fuel pumps decrease. While this may not be that important to some, professional drivers like truckers will benefit from any time they can save. Of course, the fuel pump should be a safer place for the customers as well, although this will likely go unnoticed. Finally, with this system, it's nearly impossible to fill your car with the wrong type of fuel. Driving with the wrong type of fuel can severely damage your car[1].

Week 2 Discussed new possible options for project. We decided to develop a new smart medication intake system. Mailed the project supervisors for feedback on this idea. We made the powerpoint presentation for this subject and discussed the neccesary problems for this subject. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P7jWKwyMBLSlZsZ2kOfQlemWNvSBaDBneIOfY8xGeBs/edit Main literature link for problem http://www.rivm.nl/Documenten_en_publicaties/Algemeen_Actueel/Nieuwsberichten/2013/Miljoen_65_plussers_loopt_risico_op_verkeerd_medicijngebruik

Planning

Week 1

Week 2

Clarify our project goals

Define USE aspects

Literature research

Week 3

Design sketches

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Review wiki and update if necessary

Week 9

Used Literature

Below is an example of how we should reference to the literature we have used, also known as APA style referencing.

• Author, A.A.. (Year of Publication). Title of work. Publisher City , State: Publisher.
• Author, A.A.. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Article title. Retrieved from URL

• General information http://rotec-engineering.nl/automatiseren/geautomatiseerde-tankstations/
• Robotic attendant http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-03/news/ct-getting-around-robot-vehicle-fueling-met-0224-20140303_1_gas-station-full-service-gas-own-gas/
• Tesla battery swap http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a24568/tesla-to-launch-battery-swap/
• Swapping electric batteries http://www.npr.org/2012/08/21/159355676/dont-charge-that-electric-car-battery-just-change-it
• http://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-place/