This chapter presents a novel approach for developing a global automatic navigation strategy for a mobile robot for patient care into health centers and hospitals. The proposal uses a metaheuristic strategy through the Grey Wolf Optimizer algorithm to find the shortest route between the robot’s starting and patient destination points, while also integrating knowledge of the environment acquired through vision. The global navigation tracking is achieved through the use of Fuzzy Logic Rules to control the robot’s wheel velocity according to its current position and orientation. The proposed strategy was implemented in a virtual robotics environment demonstrating that the approach successfully generated optimal paths for various environments with a minimal number of control points and in a relatively short amount of time. In addition, a simulated hospital room with common furniture and tasks was used to evaluate the performance of the global navigation strategy, demonstrating that the robot could successfully generate a global route and navigate within this environment.

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Metaheuristic Strategy in Automatic Robotics Navigation for Patient Care in Hospitals

  • Irvine J. Monroy-Rueda,
  • Ernesto Moya-Albor,
  • Jorge Brieva,
  • Hiram Ponce

摘要

This chapter presents a novel approach for developing a global automatic navigation strategy for a mobile robot for patient care into health centers and hospitals. The proposal uses a metaheuristic strategy through the Grey Wolf Optimizer algorithm to find the shortest route between the robot’s starting and patient destination points, while also integrating knowledge of the environment acquired through vision. The global navigation tracking is achieved through the use of Fuzzy Logic Rules to control the robot’s wheel velocity according to its current position and orientation. The proposed strategy was implemented in a virtual robotics environment demonstrating that the approach successfully generated optimal paths for various environments with a minimal number of control points and in a relatively short amount of time. In addition, a simulated hospital room with common furniture and tasks was used to evaluate the performance of the global navigation strategy, demonstrating that the robot could successfully generate a global route and navigate within this environment.