• DocumentCode
    3384681
  • Title

    Automation of Vaccination and Blood Sampling Procedures

  • Author

    Dr, N.I. ; Yousuf, Salman ; Kamran, Raza

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Iqra Univ., Karachi
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    12-13 Nov. 2007
  • Firstpage
    172
  • Lastpage
    178
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the applications of a robotic arrangement in the automation of human, poultry and livestock mass-vaccination and human blood sampling. The implications of these applications are vast; basically, the robot provides quarantine of the subjects and eliminates the contact of operators with the blood of subjects which is essential in some cases to prevent health hazards. It will also provide speed, accuracy and fully automatic procedures on a mass-scale which promise to be very cost effective. The concept of automatic vaccination can be easily extended to automatic sterility and medication. In epidemics, this arrangement can prove to be invaluable as it will save a lot of time and money and will eliminate health hazards to the workers. The project from its present crude form can be advanced by incorporating ideas of 3-D imaging or 2-D imaging of the site under target via software tools or image recognition or images having pathological importance. It presents a very clear working idea of "automate infusion and sampling process " at this stage.
  • Keywords
    blood; farming; health hazards; medical robotics; robot vision; human blood sampling; image recognition; livestock mass-vaccination; poultry; robotic arrangement; software tools; vaccination automation; Agriculture; Biomedical imaging; Blood; Costs; Hazards; Humans; Image recognition; Robotics and automation; Sampling methods; Software tools; blood sampling; epidemics; health hazards; mass vaccination; medication; sterility;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Emerging Technologies, 2007. ICET 2007. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Islamabad
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1493-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1494-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICET.2007.4516338
  • Filename
    4516338