PRE2023 3 Group7
Pill dispensing robot
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 | ||||
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| Literature review + summaries
Relevant groups’ work |
A
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Literature discussion
Functional requirements Target audience & problem |
A | Designing
Preliminary software Components + feedback + order needed |
Finalize components
Software prototype 3D modelling of product |
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| 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 |
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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
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 |