Assistive Cyber-Physical-Social Systems in the Healthcare Industry

Due to the shortage of nursing staff as well as the challenges faced with doing mundane tasks, there is a need to look to automating some of the dayto-day repetitive tasks that are faced by healthcare staff.As such, this work proposes a way to automate these tasks using an assistive robot.The primary focus is on automating medication dispensation, which is a repetitive task that has proven to be one of the risky tasks during the pandemic as it needs a prolonged stay with the service user or patient to ensure the medication has been taken.As such, this work proposes the use of a mobile robot for medication dispensation.We have utilised the Tiago robot for its suitability and flexibility in navigating complex surroundings.We used face mapping for patient identification and QR codes for patient room identification.We conducted a simulation and found that the robot was able to execute these tasks in a safe and accurate manner.