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ArticleIEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions2021

Blockchain-Empowered Multi-Robot Collaboration to Fight COVID-19 and Future Pandemics.

S H Alsamhi, Brian Lee

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Article in IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
24.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

S H AlsamhiSoftware Research Institute, Athlone Institute of Technology Athlone N37 HD68 Ireland.
Brian LeeSoftware Research Institute, Athlone Institute of Technology Athlone N37 HD68 Ireland.
Athlone Institute of Technology · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This conceptual paper overviews how blockchain technology is involving the operation of multi-robot collaboration for combating COVID-19 and future pandemics. Robots are a promising technology for providing many tasks such as spraying, disinfection, cleaning, treating, detecting high body temperature/mask absence, and delivering goods and medical supplies experiencing an epidemic COVID-19. For combating COVID-19, many heterogeneous and homogenous robots are required to perform different tasks for supporting different purposes in the quarantine area. Managmnt and decentralizing multi-robot play a vital role in combating COVID-19 by reducing human interaction, monitoring, delivering goods. Blockchain technology can manage multi-robot collaboration in a decentralized fashion, improve the interaction among them to exchange information, share representation, share goals, and trust. We highlight the challenges and provide the tactical solutions enabled by integrating blockchain and multi-robot collaboration to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed conceptual framework can increase the intelligence, decentralization, and autonomous operations of connected multi-robot collaboration in the blockchain network. We overview blockchain potential benefits to defining a framework of multi-robot collaboration applications to combat COVID-19 epidemics such as monitoring and outdoor and hospital End to End (E2E) delivery systems. Furthermore, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrated blockchain, multi-robot collaboration, and the Internet of Things (IoT) for combating COVID-19 and future pandemics.

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BlockchainCOVID-19decentralizationE2E delivery systeminfectious diseasesmulti-robot collaborationpandemicquarantinesmart healthcare

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PMID34786312
PMCPMC8545252
OpenAlexW3095553857

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