Healthcare, Vol. 11, Pages 388: Research of System Design and Automatic Detection Method for Excretion Nursing Equipment

Healthcare, Vol. 11, Pages 388: Research of System Design and Automatic Detection Method for Excretion Nursing Equipment

Healthcare doi: 10.3390/healthcare11030388

Authors: Bingshan Hu Zhiwei Chen Xinyu Chen Sheng Lu Yingbing Su Hongliu Yu

(1) Background: The nursing of the elderly has received more and more attention, especially the nursing of urination and defecation for the elderly. (2) Purpose: Design an excretion nursing equipment that can accurately identify and deal with urine and stool. (3) Methods: In this paper, based on the analysis of the requirements of excretion nursing equipment, a split mechanical design method and a modular control method are used to design the equipment. The Dempster–Shafer (D-S) evidence theory is used in the identification of urine and stool. (4) Results: The excretion nursing equipment designed in this paper works well according to functional test, and the success rate of stool and urine identification method using D-S evidence theory is 20% higher than that of traditional methods, reaching 90%. (5) Conclusions: The urine and stool recognition and detection algorithm based on the D-S evidence theory used in this paper can improve the recognition accuracy of traditional detection methods, and the designed excretion nursing equipment can realize the function of excretion care for patients.