Katariya Mayur, Chung Dwayne Chung Kim, Minife Tristan, Gupta Harshit, Zahidi Alifa Afiah Ahmad, Liew Oi Wah, Ng Tuck Wah
Laboratory for Optics and Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia.
Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Centre for Translational Medicine, 14 Medical Drive, 117599, Singapore.
Anal Biochem. 2018 Mar 15;545:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ab.2018.01.004. Epub 2018 Jan 4.
Autonomous systems for sample transport to the laboratory for analysis can be improved in terms of timeliness, cost and error mitigation in the pre-analytical testing phase. Drones have been reported for outdoor sample transport but incorporating devices on them to attain homogenous mixing of reagents during flight to enhance sample processing timeliness is limited by payload issues. It is shown here that flipping maneuvers conducted with quadcopters are able to facilitate complete and gentle mixing. This capability incorporated during automated sample transport serves to address an important factor contributing to pre-analytical variability which ultimately impacts on test result reliability.
用于将样本运输到实验室进行分析的自主系统，在分析前测试阶段的及时性、成本和误差缓解方面可以得到改进。已有报道称无人机可用于户外样本运输，但在无人机上搭载设备以在飞行过程中实现试剂的均匀混合以提高样本处理的及时性，却受到 payload 问题的限制。本文表明，四轴飞行器进行的翻转操作能够促进完全且温和的混合。在自动样本运输过程中加入这种能力，有助于解决导致分析前变异性的一个重要因素，而这种变异性最终会影响测试结果的可靠性。
需注意，原文中“payload”未给出准确中文释义，可能是“有效载荷”等意思，这里保留英文以便准确传达原文含义。
