Robotic Doorknob Disinfector

Doorknobs and microbes are the joint area of interest of this report:

“Robotic Doorknob Disinfector,” Matthew Scott Rosoff, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

“The robotic door-handle disinfector is a robotic platform that travels heavily trafficked hallways and disinfects door-handles to improve public health. Machine learning algorithms were created to help the Erratic™ robotic platform navigate hallways and identify door-handles using only a commercial webcam and a laser scanner. A parts-based and a texture-based machine learning object detector were tested in a real-world environment. With the addition of a wall-aligning motion control algorithm, the partsbased object detector consistently detected >85% of the doorknobs in the environment and false-alarmed in

BONUS: The String and the Doorknob