TY - GEN
T1 - A Future Patient Transporting Drone Evaluated
AU - Ribeiro Monteiro, Luciana
AU - Adar, Michal
AU - Bessai, Riel
AU - Bukai, Itamar
AU - van den Boom, Lennert
AU - Echaniz Jurado, Alazne
AU - Ville, Alicia
AU - Essle, Phillip
AU - Vink, Peter
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Soteria is a patient transporting drone, which is part of a living lab setting for Future Mobility, which Embraer is developing. It has been designed in conjunction with the Talaria propulsion system, an autonomous and modular eVTOL flight package. The idea is that during disaster scenarios, Soteria is summoned by first responders to the scene after which a noncritical patient is loaded from the field into the carrier. Soteria then autonomously and independently ferries the patient safely to the closest hospital, where they are unloaded by medical personnel. It is important that handlings are fast and that the patient will fit in the system. Therefore, Soteria was ergonomically tested. The interior of the carrier, the interior layout, and human-machine interface were evaluated with a 1:1 model and compared with guidelines found in the literature. Based on that improvements were made and presented for future design iterations.
AB - Soteria is a patient transporting drone, which is part of a living lab setting for Future Mobility, which Embraer is developing. It has been designed in conjunction with the Talaria propulsion system, an autonomous and modular eVTOL flight package. The idea is that during disaster scenarios, Soteria is summoned by first responders to the scene after which a noncritical patient is loaded from the field into the carrier. Soteria then autonomously and independently ferries the patient safely to the closest hospital, where they are unloaded by medical personnel. It is important that handlings are fast and that the patient will fit in the system. Therefore, Soteria was ergonomically tested. The interior of the carrier, the interior layout, and human-machine interface were evaluated with a 1:1 model and compared with guidelines found in the literature. Based on that improvements were made and presented for future design iterations.
KW - Comfort
KW - Drone
KW - Loading
KW - Patient transportation
KW - Stretcher
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111162926&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-74611-7_54
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-74611-7_54
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85111162926
SN - 9783030746100
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 397
EP - 403
BT - Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2021 - Healthcare and Healthy Work
A2 - Black, Nancy L.
A2 - Neumann, W. Patrick
A2 - Noy, Ian
PB - Springer
T2 - 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2021
Y2 - 13 June 2021 through 18 June 2021
ER -