Advanced Communications Technology in Robotics and Flexible Manufacturing Cells

IRI-9522930 Tesar，Delbert德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校$60，000 - 24个月 CONACyT：机器人和柔性制造单元中的先进通信技术 这是一个为期两年的标准奖的第一年。 制造业正处于智能水平革命的边缘，这将在未来十年内成为可能和必要。 NSF/CONACyT计划下的这一奖项资助了德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的机器人研究人员与库埃尔纳瓦卡和墨西哥城的蒙特雷技术与研究所（ITESM）实验室的研究人员之间的合作，以开发下一代生产设施所需的高性能，可重构和容错机器人和制造单元的基础技术。 奥斯汀的实验室将专注于生产系统中高度可靠、容错和可重构通信的基础技术。 这包括在系统中的所有连接处创建最佳软件结构和标准化的可重新配置接口。 将开发适当级别的粒度、多路复用、协议等，以提供配置管理方案，从而最快速和可靠地避免数据传输中的故障，包括缓冲器，以允许过渡时间而不丢失控制信息。 位于墨西哥城和库埃尔纳瓦卡的ITESM实验室将专注于制造单元的硬件和操作软件。

IRI-9522930 Tesar, Delbert University of Texas-Austin $60,000- 24 mos CONACyT: Advanced Communication Technology in Robotics and Flexible Manufacturing Cells This is the first year of a two-year standard award. The field of manufacturing is on the verge of a revolution in the level of intelligence which will become possible and necessary during the next decade. This award under the NSF/CONACyT Initiative funds a collaboration between robotics investigators at the University of Texas at Austin and researchers at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) laboratories at Cuernavaca and Mexico City to develop foundation technologies needed for high performance, reconfigurable, and fault tolerant robots and manufacturing cells for the next generation production facilities. The laboratory at Austin will concentrate on the foundation technologies for highly reliable, fault tolerant, and reconfigurable communications within production systems. This includes the creation of the best software structure and standardized reconfigurable interfaces at all connections in the system. The appropriate level of granularity, multiplexing, protocols, etc. will be developed to provide configuration management schemes to most rapidly and reliably avoid a fault in the data transfer including buffers to allow for transition time without loss of control information. The ITESM labs at Mexico City and Cuernavaca will focus on hardware and operational software for the manufacturing cells.