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 Robotics
& Instrumentation Lab
Location: 2230 Gleason
Phone: 585-475-5604
Facilitator: Prof. Wayne Walter
Description/Projects:
MEMS projects involving multiple micro-robots that determine their position
from a fixed light source, and find each other to push a box to a known
location; MS project on a smart prosthetic hand involving a master/slave
system; LACOMS project involving multiple micro-robots finding a hole
in a pipe, and dispensing a sealant to plug the hole; robotics class projects
which involve Stamp micro-controller based mobile robots and industrial
robots.
Test and measurement facilities have been chosen with two
goals in mind: the immediate support of the freshman instructional courses,
and future integration and expansion throughout the Mechanical Engineering
curriculum. National Instruments has been chosen as the primary vendor
for data acquisition hardware and software. National Instruments (NI)
is a recognized leader in test and measurement resources, with a predominant
market share of all such facilities sold in the US and throughout the
world. In fact, many (if not most) original equipment manufacturers supply
drivers to allow integration of their hardware with LabVIEW, NI’s
flagship graphical programming application. LabVIEW greatly simplifies
data acquisition and analysis, especially for the novice user, without
sacrificing higher-level capabilities. In addition, NI supplies its basic
hardware configuration utilities free of charge. The latest version of
these utilities is its Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX), which
allows windows-based testing and control of all NI hardware. MAX can be
tightly integrated with LabVIEW for its fullest potential, but can also
be used in conjunction with virtually any second-party application for
hardware configuration and support.
The instrumentation lab was generously created by the National Science Foundation Course,
Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Adaptation and Implementation
Grant #0088779, and matching funds from RIT.
People involved:
Wayne Walter, Ben Varela, John Wellin, Risa Robinson
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