| Automation, Robotics, and Manufacturing | Measurement Science and Systems Engineering |
Human-Amplifying Machines
| This area of robotics and automation focuses on systems that work in smooth synergy with humans in augmenting their physical strength abilities while maintaining complete task awareness through feedback to the human. Exoskeletons are examples of such human-amplifying machines. The group's staff have developed unique designs and test beds in this area, emphasizing strength-, reach-, dexterity-, and endurance-amplification. Some of the most important technology components relate to the need of such machines to precisely "follow" the human while maintaining transparency of operation, and include haptic interfaces, power supplies, high-power density and high bandwidth actuators, and high-precision force-based controls. In several of these areas, as well as in the design and integration of these particular machines, the group's staff have developed expertise, experience, and capabilities that are unique in the world. |  |
Technology Fact Sheets Ship Motion Compensation for Force Control Systems (SMCFCS) |
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Last updated: August 16, 2011