Modular Robotic Platform for Adaptable Disinfection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing disinfection systems in technical facilities, such as operating theaters, are not adaptable to various disinfection tasks and often require specific designs for different fluid applications, making them inefficient and inflexible.
Innovation Solution
A modular robotic platform with a U.V. emitting disinfection unit, featuring a drive mechanism, position determination device, and communication device, allowing for remote or autonomous operation, modular design with standardized interfaces for data and power exchange, and submodules for control and disinfection, enabling flexible adaptation to different disinfection scenarios.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a modular robotic platform with standardized interfaces is used, then adaptability to different disinfection tasks is improved, but device complexity increases due to multiple modules and connectors
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic platform is divided into modular components (drive mechanism, disinfection device, position determination device, communication device) that can be independently configured and combined. Each module has standardized interfaces for mechanical connection and data exchange, allowing flexible assembly for different disinfection scenarios while managing complexity through standardized protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform employs universal standardized interfaces for both mechanical connections and data exchange across all modules. This universality allows the same base platform to perform multiple disinfection functions by simply changing or reconfiguring the disinfection device module, thereby improving adaptability without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
2Productivity
If quick data streaming and position determination are implemented, then disinfection efficiency is improved, but use of energy increases due to continuous data transmission and positioning
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous data streaming between modules and continuous position determination during disinfection operations. This ensures real-time coordination and tracking, maximizing disinfection efficiency by eliminating delays and ensuring the disinfection device is always positioned optimally, though it increases energy consumption during operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The modular robotic platform ensures efficient and adaptable disinfection by allowing quick data streaming and position determination, minimizing time delays and ensuring contamination-free disinfection across diverse scenarios, with the ability to operate autonomously and adapt to different disinfection tasks.
Implementation Method 1
at least one U.V. transmitter which disinfects a surface of the technical facility to be disinfected
Implementation Method 2
an encoder unit
Data Source
AI summary
A robotic platform is provided having a disinfection unit configured to disinfect a technical area.