Genderless Connector - Defined Verification and Validation

Connect-R项目旨在开发一种工业规模的自构建模块化机器人解决方案，以便在恶劣和危险的环境中进入工作场所。这种自配置机器人脚手架系统的目标是在非结构化环境中提供结构，并提供其他更小的机器人系统（具有先进的末端执行器），轻松进入所需区域执行基本任务。Connect-R系统的初始部署侧重于核退役用例，但该系统也可以在其他领域提供能力，例如海上石油和天然气、深部采矿和太空探索。Connect-R系统使人们能够进入以前无法进入的地区，它释放了各个部门的巨大潜力，并通过将人们从极端和危险的环境中转移出来，降低了人类生命的风险。我们的目标是提供高质量、可靠的工程产品，这些产品可以在危险环境中持续工作，使我们的客户能够退役老化、危险和危险的设施。我们的Connect-R自重构模块化机器人结构的关键促成因素是无性别机械连接（GMC）。我们认为，GMC为模块间的机械对接和解对接提供了通用的解决方案；它还为液压动力和数据提供了强大而有效的连接。该项目扩展的主要目标是通过进一步有针对性的测试、验证和验证以及演示，使GMC技术成熟，不仅针对我们目前的核电市场利益相关者，也针对石油和天然气行业的代表。

The Connect-R project aims to develop an industrial-scale self-building modular robotic solution to provide access to worksites in hostile and hazardous environments. The objective of this self-configurable robotic scaffolding system is to provide structure in unstructured environments, and to afford other smaller robotic systems (with advanced end effectors), easy access to the required zone to carry out essential tasks.The initial deployment of the Connect-R system focuses on a nuclear decommissioning use case, but the system can also deliver capability in other sectors, such as offshore oil and gas, deep mining, and space exploration. The Connect-R system enables access to areas that were previously inaccessible, it unlocks huge potential in a variety of sectors, and it reduces the risk to human life by removing people from extreme and dangerous environments.It is our goal to provide quality, reliable, engineering products that consistently work in hazardous environments to allow our clients to decommission their aging, dangerous and hazardous installations.A key enabler to our Connect-R self-reconfigurable modular robotic structure is the Genderless Mechanical Connection (GMC). We believe that the GMC provides a generic solution for the mechanical docking and undocking between modules; it also gives a robust and effective connection for hydraulic power and data. The main objectives of this project extension are to mature the readiness of the GMC technology through further targeted Testing, Validation & Verification, and Demonstration, not only to our current stakeholders from the Nuclear market but also to representatives of the Oil & Gas sector.