Overview
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The research at the Space, Automation, and Manufacturing Mechanisms
(SAMM) Laboratory focuses on intelligent and autonomous robotic systems,
innovative mechanisms for automation, manufacturing and micro-electro-
mechanical systems.
- Building enabling capabilities for design and control of Heterogeneous Expert Robots for on-Orbit Servicing (HEROS).
- Developing metrics that provide a practical measure of dynamic performance of general kinematic systems that are valuable in parameter identification for parallel kinematic mechanisms (PKMs).
- Integrating physics-based modeling and advanced control techniques to achieve precision execution of cooperative multi-robot tasks with reconfigurable capabilities in highly dynamic environments.
- Creating comprehensive models, simulations and performing experimental validation of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).
- Blending silicon-based technologies with robotics to design, build and control new innovative micro-machines.
- Designing the next generation of flexible, automated Intelligent Fixturing Systems (IFS) focusing on the mechanical adaptability of fixture design with embedded control of process dynamics. This research is expected to impact precision manufacturing and micro-assembly in a significant way.
Recent projects include: