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

这个机器人和视觉设备奖， 支持快速原型设计、可视化、自动化 制造和灵巧的操作。 可视化工作 旨在创造一个电子环境， 要制造的物体。 快速原型制作发生在 对象的电子版本被翻译成代码， 使物体能够被制造的夹具序列。 当这个过程完全自动化和优化时， 自动化生产已经实现。 关于Dexterous 操纵被捆绑到制造过程中，因为 未来的工厂将需要复杂的机器人， 拿起和处理各种物体。 该研究项目是美国为数不多的项目之一， 国家，解决需要 在自动化制造中。 该设备将支持 视觉基础研究（机器人需要看），操作（机器人 需要掌握物体）、机床和规划 电子媒体（允许产品的快速开发），以及 工厂任务优化（允许廉价，高质量， 产品的大规模生产）。

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).