IGF::OT::IGF Fully Adaptive and Autonomous Drone for Laboratory Automation Projects

IGF::OT::IGF 用于实验室自动化项目的完全自适应自主无人机

• 批准号: 9576593
• 负责人: S.K. Ganapathi
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-15 至 2018-03-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9576593
• 关键词: Automation; Computer software; Contractor; Dimensions; Environment; Equipment; Failure; Human; Human Resources; Intervention; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Location; Logistics; Measurement; Mechanics; Movement; Productivity; Robot; Robotics; Safety; Translational Research; design; high throughput screening; innovation; operation; sensor

Contractor will design and build a fully automated, self-contained drone platform to enable repetitive tasks in a laboratory environment - specifically, High throughput Screening (HTS) by robotic loading and unloading of microplates in a bio-research laboratory. Such a platform has the potential to be far more attractive than traditional robots in the realm of indoor logistics because they can be adapted to be infinitely configurable with respect to waypoints; can transport material over long distances; and unlike traditional robots, do not adversely impact the real estate envelope of the laboratory or require rearrangement of equipment in a laboratory. Contractor will use commercially available components to a large extent, and combine them with innovative mechanics, sensor, software and actuation solutions. The resulting platform will allow fully autonomous operation with minimal operator intervention requirements, and yet provide high accuracy in material movement, low failure rates, easy to use software driven interfaces, and a high degree of safety to allow the drones to operate within the bio-laboratory in the presences of humans and other bstacles. The drone platform will largely eliminate the need for labor intensive repetitive logistics operations and also provide attractive productivity enhancements within the bio-laboratory sector.

承包商将设计和建造一个完全自动化的、独立的无人机平台， 实验室环境-特别是，通过机器人装载和卸载高通量筛选（HTS）， 一个生物研究实验室里的微孔板。这样的平台有可能比传统的 在室内物流领域的机器人，因为它们可以适应是无限的配置方面， 路点;可以长距离运输材料;与传统机器人不同，不会对真实的 或要求重新安排实验室内的设备。订约人将采用 在很大程度上使用商用组件，并将其与创新的机械，传感器，软件 和驱动解决方案。由此产生的平台将允许完全自主操作，操作员干预最少 要求，但提供高精度的材料运动，低故障率，易于使用的软件驱动 接口，以及高度的安全性，以允许无人机在生物实验室内操作， 人类和其他障碍物无人机平台将在很大程度上消除劳动密集型重复物流的需求 此外，它还提供了生物实验室部门内有吸引力的生产力提高。