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Drive Through Robotics: Robotic Automation for Last Mile Distribution of Food and Essentials During Pandemics

The COVID-19 pandemic unraveled the weak points in the global supply chain for goods. Specifically, people all over the world, including those in the most advanced nations have had to go without medical supplies and personal protective equipment. Scarcity of essentials increases anxiety and uncertai...

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Publicado: IEEE 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8545352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007064
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description The COVID-19 pandemic unraveled the weak points in the global supply chain for goods. Specifically, people all over the world, including those in the most advanced nations have had to go without medical supplies and personal protective equipment. Scarcity of essentials increases anxiety and uncertainty exacerbating unproductive behaviors like hoarding and price gouging. Left to market forces, such unfair practices are likely to aggravate hardships and increase the loss of lives. Thus, there is a critical need to ensure safe distribution of food and essential supplies to all citizens to sustain them through challenging times. To this end, we propose a simple, affordable and contact-less robotic system for preparing and dispensing food and survival-kits at community scale. The system has provisions to prevent hoarding and price gouging. Design, simulation, and, validation of the system has been completed to ensure readiness for real world implementation. This project is part of an open-source program and detailed designs are available upon request to entities interested in using it to serve their communities.
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spelling pubmed-85453522021-11-12 Drive Through Robotics: Robotic Automation for Last Mile Distribution of Food and Essentials During Pandemics IEEE Access Robotics and Automation The COVID-19 pandemic unraveled the weak points in the global supply chain for goods. Specifically, people all over the world, including those in the most advanced nations have had to go without medical supplies and personal protective equipment. Scarcity of essentials increases anxiety and uncertainty exacerbating unproductive behaviors like hoarding and price gouging. Left to market forces, such unfair practices are likely to aggravate hardships and increase the loss of lives. Thus, there is a critical need to ensure safe distribution of food and essential supplies to all citizens to sustain them through challenging times. To this end, we propose a simple, affordable and contact-less robotic system for preparing and dispensing food and survival-kits at community scale. The system has provisions to prevent hoarding and price gouging. Design, simulation, and, validation of the system has been completed to ensure readiness for real world implementation. This project is part of an open-source program and detailed designs are available upon request to entities interested in using it to serve their communities. IEEE 2020-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8545352/ /pubmed/34786277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007064 Text en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title Drive Through Robotics: Robotic Automation for Last Mile Distribution of Food and Essentials During Pandemics
title_full Drive Through Robotics: Robotic Automation for Last Mile Distribution of Food and Essentials During Pandemics
title_fullStr Drive Through Robotics: Robotic Automation for Last Mile Distribution of Food and Essentials During Pandemics
title_full_unstemmed Drive Through Robotics: Robotic Automation for Last Mile Distribution of Food and Essentials During Pandemics
title_short Drive Through Robotics: Robotic Automation for Last Mile Distribution of Food and Essentials During Pandemics
title_sort drive through robotics: robotic automation for last mile distribution of food and essentials during pandemics
topic Robotics and Automation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8545352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007064
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