Treadmill Desk robot designed for medical services by one participant of LAI2-Covid-19

ITS Campus, ITS News – Covid-19 pandemic, which also attacked Indonesia since the beginning of 2020, made Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) made useful innovations for medical personnel. One of them is by organizing an innovative and inspirational application competition for Covid-19 (LAI2-COVID-19) online nationally, which focuses on developing robotic technology applications to assist with the performance of medical personnel.

This competition has been going on since 22 April 2020 until 23 July 2020. LAI2-COVID-19 held by the Directorate of Student Affairs (Ditmawa) ITS on the 1st Ditmawa ITS in Action program in 2020 is led by Hakun Wirawasista Aparamarta ST MMT Ph.D. LAI2-COVID-19 focuses on the application of the robot power function as a remote detector that can measure the person exposed by Covid-19. Not only that, but one of the designs of the robot is also enabled in the field of modernism by promoting a suitable vessel design for the handling and health protocol Covid-19.

Hakun explained that this competition is also a medium for students in Indonesia, especially ITS students, to be more productive in this pandemic era. “How creative ideas from this student can be one of the solutions to the problem of COVID in Indonesia and we want to invite students in Indonesia to have empathy for the problems that exist in Indonesia,” said Hakun.

LAI2-COVID-19 has three subthemes that are carried and must be original. The first subtheme is an innovative Robot application for handling Covid-19 that has a service function for Covid-19 patients. The second subtheme is a remote detector to know who is infected by Covid-19, this detector will functioning as a measuring device to ensure that a person has been infected by Covid-19. Lastly, the third subtheme raised in this competition is a Covid-19 patient transporter ship that has good stability.

LAI2-Covid-19 judging held online

Each subtheme has its variables that must be met. For the first subtheme, Hakun encourages its students to create a robotic innovation that has the function of serving patients on infected rooms, food delivery services, and patient goods, capable of being controlled remotely, being able to see the physical condition of the patient, and can provide information to the patient in his/her service. “When the robot is enabled on an industrial scale, it must have a high domestic component level (TKDN),” said the lecturer of Department of Chemical Engineering.

Then in the second subtheme, the observed variable is the precision of the measurement tool on the sensor, the measuring distance that the detector can reach, and the technology of the tool should be easy to operate. Based on the information from this 42-year-old man, the participants were asked to submit a proposal that contained explanations of tools, methods, and devices used.

On the subtheme of the Covid-19 Patient Transporter Ship, the vessel design is expected to withstand in the 3rd Sea State. That is the state of the sea where the altitude of waves ranged from 1.25-2.5 meters. In addition, the design of the vessel must have a good General Arrangement plan.

Lecturers who once published the research on modified flour also explained the mechanism of this LAI2-COVID-19 race, in which the ITS will open the registration from 22 April to 5 May 2020. “We announce through social media and ITS Ditmawa that we hold a robot competition,” said the members of the Biochemical Engineering Laboratory.

The race participant LAI2-Covid-19, the HOSIRO-USIRO team from ITS, won the 1st place in one of the subthemes.

Thus, the registered participants are allowed to send their proposals according to the variables specified based on the subtheme according to the deadline given. “From here, one jury from ITS and the two judges from outside ITS selected proposal given the participant for one to two weeks, then we took the top five of the time specified and we give two weeks to give a visual animation in the form of a presentation,” he explained.

Presentations are performed online through apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Meanwhile, the judging criteria given by the jury are the format of proposal writing, the creativity of the created design, data and relevance of information, as well as the accuracy of the proposed ideas including its discussion and conclusion.

Furthermore, Hakun also explained in terms of the utilization of this design, ITS and the judges need to deepen the design of the champions. This competition is expected to inspire ITS Covid-19 fighters to give the best ideas in the form of research into the product, so it can help in this Covid-19 pandemic. “I hope this competition will continue to be the annual agenda of Ditmawa to become an international competition,” Hakun concluded.

The champion announcement has been submitted through ITS official Instagram account @its_campus, on Wednesday (22/7). The first prize in the innovative Robot application subtheme for handling Covid-19 was achieved by the Hosiro-Usiro team from ITS, the runner-up of the Cocingbot-19 team from the Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya (PENS), and the third place was won by Rose team from Telkom Institute of Technology Surabaya.

While in the subtheme of the remote detector for the people infected by the Covid-19, the first champion won by the Instone team from ITS, runner-up by the GATA team of ITS, and the third-place won the AKI team from the Madiun State Polytechnic. For the design of the subtheme of the Covid-19 Patient Transporter Ship is still in the judging stage and the new winner will be announced on Friday (24/7) on ITS official Instagram account. (jev/rev/ITS Public Relations)