Center of Excellence in Aerospace Manufacturing Automation
Abstract
Air Force support of a Center of Excellence at Stanford University has provided the impetus and core for a major new entity, the Center for Automation and Manufacturing Science (CAMS). The new center draws from two well- known research groups at Stanford: the Robotics Group of Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Automatic Control Group of Stanford's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Ten professors and some 50 graduate students are participating in CAMS activities. CAMS in turn is the first of a new complex of centers at Stanford involved in the manufacturing enterprise: the Stanford Institute for Manufacturing and Automation (SIMA). Strong industrial interaction is a primary objective of SIMA. In our Air Force program we are focusing on robotic aspects of automation. Our goal is to make fundamental contributions to the underlying set of technologies that will enable the next generation of industrial robots to be far more capable than today's - will enable them to be lightweight, limber, deft, facile, quick, friendly, low-powered, seeing, sensing, thinking machines that can reason and strategize- can carry out tasks assigned at a high conceptual level. Specifically, our research focus is on fast, precise control of lightweight (flexible) manipulators, sensing, especially optical and tactile sensing, intelligent systems for robot task management, and computer vision for robot management. We are addressing the question of how to provide manipulator control so good that a whole new generation of manipulators can be developed-manipulators that are much lighter and far more facile than anything today's control systems could stably manage.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA136477
Entities
People
- J. D. Meindl
- R. H. Cannon Jr.
- Rebekah Brooks
- T. O. Binford
Organizations
- Stanford University