ArticleJournal of manufacturing systems2021
Reconfiguring and ramping-up ventilator production in the face of COVID-19: Can robots help?
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- A comprehensive review and bibliometric analysis on collaborative robotics for industry: safety emerging as a core focus.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Pooled it
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- New IT driven rapid manufacturing for emergency response.Journal of manufacturing systems · 2021Article
- Reconfiguring and ramping-up ventilator production in the face of COVID-19: Can robots help?Journal of manufacturing systems · 2021Article
- A literature survey of the robotic technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of manufacturing systems · 2021Article
- A digital twin-driven human-robot collaborative assembly approach in the wake of COVID-19.Journal of manufacturing systems · 2021Article
- Role of additive manufacturing in medical application COVID-19 scenario: India case study.Journal of manufacturing systems · 2021Article
- A Meta-Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Applications for Tracking COVID-19: The Case of the U.A.E.Procedia computer science · 2021Article
- Robots Under COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Survey.IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions · 2021Article
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Abstract
As the COVID-19 pandemic expands, the shortening of medical equipment is swelling. A key piece of equipment getting far-out attention has been ventilators. The difference between supply and demand is substantial to be handled with normal production techniques, especially under social distancing measures in place. The study explores the rationale of human-robot teams to ramp up production using advantages of both the ease of integration and maintaining social distancing. The paper presents a model for faster integration of collaborative robots and design guidelines for workstations. The scenario is evaluated for an open source ventilator through continuous human-robot simulation and amplification of results in a discrete event simulation.
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