The impact of Covid-19 has affected many people across the globe. One key action that people can do to help reduce the impact is to get rapid Covid tests to reduce the spread. As engineers, we increased the efficiency of rapid testing by creating a mobile system that can assist the healthcare workers who administer the tests. The main purpose of the mobile system is to reduce the time and manual labor it takes for Covid tests to be distributed and collected at clinics and other healthcare facilities. We hope that the amount of time saved will allow healthcare workers to focus on more important tasks, such as treating patients that have already tested positive for Covid. Additionally, our system also reduces the number of people-to-people contact between healthy people and suspected Covid-positive people.
Our system uses two motors and a caster wheel to maximize the budget and stability of the system. Additionally, we used an infrared sensor to track our set path to deliver test samples and retrieve the testing samples. We have an ultrasonic sensor to avoid any obstacles that may come in the path of the robot. Lastly, we have a servo motor that controls the movement of our compartment box.
For our project, we decided to have fun with it and designed our delivery systems route to go through Santa's village to make sure his little helpers were up to date on their Covid tests. Our robot ran through the village in a loop to make sure everyone could get to the designated stops and either take a test or put their sample in the storage compartment before making its way to the other end of town where the samples could get tested. This allowed all of Santa's helpers know if they could show up to work and help build all the children's presents.