Development of an Automatic Chinese Herbal Medicine Dispensing System

• Main Authors: Ping-Jung Hsieh, 謝秉融
• Other Authors: Chi-Ying Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11711010665890847346

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 機械工程系 === 104 === The increasingly lack of manpower and mis-operation during dispensation has brought the advent of automatic dispensing systems recently, which focus on western medicine and concentration scientific herbal medicine. Due to its medical efficacy traditional herbal medicine is still preferred for clinical use but manual dispensation requires significant time and manpower. Therefore, this thesis presented an automatic dispensing system for Chinese herbal decoctions. After importing prescription details such as drug name, dosage and weight of each herbal medicine, the system then automatically performs the desired dispensing task. The study adopted machine vision and a robot manipulator to grasp herbal medicine. To improve efficiency and accuracy, a least-square curve fitted equation which relates the grasping weight with gripper width was obtained through iterative training. Dispensing experimental results were conducted to verify the feasibility of the proposed system.