MOBILIZATION AND POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF ALL TERRAIN ROBOT TO IMPROVE HOSPITAL LOGISTIC PERFORMANCE

• Main Author: Stevenson Mustaine, George
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/56163
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

In helping to reduce physical contact in hospitals, robots can be used to assist nurses in delivering food or medicine. In order to make the mobilization of robot not hampered, the robot needs to be designed so that it can pass through various fields, especially through stairs which are the most difficult terrain in hospitals. For this reason, this all-terrain robot will have a mobilization system that has a tanklike configuration. The mobilization system will have two parts, namely a crawler that provides more traction to robot and a flipper arm that is useful for adjusting the approach angle of robot against the ladder. In its implementation, crawlers and flipper arms can be controlled simultaneously or independently. For this reason, the system will be designed using the Real Time Operating System (RTOS). This mobilization of course requires power to be able to move the robot. Therefore, a large and portable power source needs to be used in this robot. The appropriate power source for this problem is a lithium-ion battery which has a fairly large power per dimension characteristic. The battery capacity of the robot can be determined based on the total power requirement, the length of time the robot needs to be on and the desired charging speed.