Abdeldjallil Naceri, Jean Elsner, Mario Trobinger, Hamid Sadeghian, Lars Johannsmeier, Florian Voigt, Xiao Chen, Daniela Macari, Christoph Jahne, Maximilian Berlet, Jonas Fuchtmann, Luis Figueredo, Hubertus Feusner, Dirk Wilhelm, Sami Haddadin
The current crisis surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the amount of responsibility and the workload on our healthcare system and, above all, on the medical staff around the world. In this work, we propose a promising approach to overcome this problem using robot-assisted telediagnostics, which allows medical experts to examine patients from distance. The designed telediagnostic system consists of two robotic arms. Each robot is located at the doctor and patient sites. Such a system enables the doctor to have a direct conversation via telepresence and to examine patients through robot-assisted inspection (guided tactile and audiovisual contact)...
October 2022: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters