CAREER: Design of Robotic Systems Using Analytical Methods and Rapid Prototyping

这笔赠款为职业奖励提供资金。这个项目有两个主要的研究目标。首先，用多项式消去法对空间机构和机器人系统的几何设计问题提出解析解。其次，将开发使用快速成型技术制造机械和机器人系统的程序，并进行实验验证。这个项目有三个教育目标。第一个目标是发展先进的教育基础设施，教授升级和翻新版本的机械装置高级设计本科生和研究生课程。该项目的第二个教育目标是启动本科生的研究，并纳入一门名为“机械系统设计的实验和计算研究”的新课程。第三个目标是与新泽西州的科技高中建立工程设计和机器人系统的合作项目，目的是吸引该领域的新学生。制造业、机器人技术和设计教育将受益于拟议的统一框架，通过集成先进的基于计算机的设计工具，如计算方法、计算机辅助设计包、具有触觉接口的虚拟现实和快速原型技术，设计复杂的机械和机器人系统。此外，这一职业项目还包括更广泛的影响活动，如外国合作、代表性不足的团体的参与以及与新泽西州高中的合作。

This grant provides funding for a CAREER award. This project has two principal research goals. First, it will propose analytical solutions for the geometric design problems of spatial mechanisms and robotic systems using polynomial elimination methods. Second, procedures to manufacture mechanisms and robotic systems using Rapid Prototyping techniques will be developed and experimentally verified. This project has three educational goals. The first goal is to develop an advanced educational infrastructure to teach an upgraded and renovated version of the undergraduate and graduate courses on Advanced Design of Mechanisms. The second educational goal of the project is the initiation of undergraduates in research with the incorporation of a novel course entitled "Experimental and Computational Research on the Design of Mechanical Systems". The third goal is to establish collaborative projects on engineering design and robotic systems with the science and technology high schools of New Jersey, with the objective to attract new students in this field.Manufacturing industries, robot technologies and design education will benefit from the proposed unified framework for designing complex mechanical and robotic systems by integrating advanced computer based design tools such as Computational Methods, Computer Aided Design packages, Virtual Reality with Haptic Interfaces and Rapid Prototyping. In addition this CAREER project includes broader impact activities such as foreign collaborations, participation of underrepresented groups and cooperation with New Jersey high schools.