Abstract
Healthcare services heavily rely on healthcare staff and subsequently, there is the need to improve healthcare staff's workflow. The deployment of an automated mobile base will help enhance the productivity of logistics tasks in the hospital, like collection and delivery. By improving such logistic tasks healthcare personal is able to focus on other tasks to serve the community better. Currently there are commercial solutions to deal with these logistic tasks, where a mobile base is able to move from one place to another in a structured environment like a hospital. These mobile platforms are expensive and there are no local companies providing these services which translate to additional costs to ship the machine from overseas when buying and, to and fro oversea when for maintenance. In addition, many of these mobile platforms rely on changing the environment by adding lines in the floors, or reflective laser markers; this translate to additional cost to maintain these markers in good condition so that the mobile base can detect and follow it. In this paper, we present the first effort to develop a cost effective mobile base to be used for delivery in healthcare amenities.