Industrial - Bachelors

PD Bot

The Pill dispensary Robot (PD Bot) is a robot designed to help alleviate the pressure faced in modern hospitals. It is able to self-navigate hospital wards using Lidar and smart navigation. Its modular design allows for future units to be implemented with ease by simply swapping the internal unit and changing the robots task using the built-in touchscreen.

Jett Bryant

Worldwide stress levels of healthcare workers has seen a major spike since the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world back in 2020, a global rise of stress levels and work loads faced by hospital staff and volunteers has seen an all-time high. With a lack of trained proffesionals and an ever-growing workload, a need for an evolutionary device was required to help reduce the stress levels faced.

TOPIC CHOSEN

For this project, Assistive care robotics was investigated in a hospital environment. The main Purpose of the design was to help alleviate the pressure faced by medical staff on a daily basis.

Revolutionary

PD Bot will revolutionize the way that the medical industry works. Its elegant design is able to be customised to better suit each different hospital environment and to match any style. It utilises two high torque motors and uses Lidar technology to self-navigate around the hospital ward with the ability to utilise elevators for multi-floor utilisation. In future iterations of the design, PD Bot will become even more modular so that it is able to be utilised for a number of tasks all at once, thus further helping to alleviate some of the stress faced on a daily in our hospital systems. PD Bot also aims to help make patients less dependable on Hospital staff during their visits, allowing for privacy and some dignity for the patients.

From the Start

PD Bots design initially start off as a boxy form factor. Through design development, its design became more elegant and round form factor. (Use the arrows at the bottom of the image to scroll through some of the early deisgn stafes of PD Bot)

Since the initial concept of PD Bot, its design has come a long way. It has been designed around a modular unit that in future iterations has the potential to be utilized in a number of ways for a wide range of tasks.

Intrducing PD Bot

“The Robot with the potential to do it all… its potential never ends…”

PD Bot is the robot designed to make hospital life easier, not only for staff but also for patients. Its modular design has potential for further future applications such as a power supply unit for surgical equipment, a food heater or surgical chiller for transplanted organs. PD Bot uses Lidar sensors as well as a smartnav system to be able to effectively navigate around the hospital and able to alternate between floors of the hospital by requesting an elevator via Wi-Fi communications.

Pill Dispensary

PD Bot is a delivery unit that is able to effectively navigate around the hospital and when a patient scans their hospital wristband, it displays their daily medication and then opens us and accurately dispenses their medication.

PD Bot is able to be fully customised in terms of its overall finish to better suit each individual hospital space and its sleek design promotes quality design .

Renders

PD Bot is not only going to revolutionise the way out hospital systems work, it truly has the potential to change the way entire industries function.

Prototypes

Three Main Prototype Stages

Three main prototypes were used in this project all that were at a 1-to-5 scale of the actual model. The first prototype was to ensure the accurate placement of the internal components of the small-scale model for testing. The prototype was to help better visualise how a hinge mechanism would work on a small scale. The second prototype was a primary prototype, designed and used to get a better idea of the full scale of the small-scale design. This design helped to identify some of the major aesthetical and overall design flaws of the design.
The final prototype, as can be seen on the left, is the model used to present the final concept to given clients. Although at a one-fifth scale, the given model encompasses the main concept of the design.

Technical Drawings

Jett Bryant

Jett is an Industrial Designer with a passion for CAD Design. He is highly passionate about product design and is skilled in numerous CAD software but has a true passion for Fusion 360. Jett studied Industrial design at QUT where he also undertook his final year of Mechatronics Engineering.