A Group Proposal to Improve the Existing Research Infrastructure at NYU Robotics Laboratory with Applications to Robotics, Manufacturing, Visualization and Graphics

该设备奖授予机器人和视觉设备，支持快速成型、可视化、自动化制造和灵活操作方面的研究。可视化工作的目的是为建造要制造的物体创造一个电子环境。当物体的电子版本被翻译成能够制造物体的代码和夹具序列时，就发生了快速成型。当这一过程完全自动化和优化时，自动化制造的目标就实现了。灵巧操作的工作与制造过程息息相关，因为未来的工厂将需要能够拾取和处理各种物体的复杂机器人。这项研究项目是美国为数不多的解决自动化制造中需要解决的所有问题的项目之一。该设备将支持视觉(机器人需要看到)、操纵(机器人需要抓取物体)、来自电子媒体的机床和规划(允许快速开发产品)以及工厂任务优化(允许廉价、高质量、大规模生产产品)的基础研究。

This equipment award, for robotics and vision equipment, supports research in rapid prototyping, visualization, automated manufacturing, and dexterous manipulation. The visualization work aims to create an electronic environment for the building of objects to be manufactured. Rapid prototyping occurs when the electronic version of the object is translated into codes and fixturing sequences that enable the object to be manufactured. When this process is fully automated and optimized, then the goal of automated manufacturing has been met. The work on dexterous manipulation is tied into the manufacturing process because the factory of the future will need complex robots that are able to pick up and handle a variety of objects. This research project is one of the few projects in the United States that addresses the full range of issues that need to be addressed in automated manufacturing. The equipment will support basic research on vision (robots need to see), manipulation (robots need to grasp objects), machine tooling and planning from electronic media (allowing the rapid development of products), and factory task optimization (allowing the inexpensive, high quality, mass production of products).