AutoLab: a robotics solution for flexible laboratory automation

Nizam Ahmed; Arcot Sowmya

doi:10.1117/12.189088

13 October 1994 AutoLab: a robotics solution for flexible laboratory automation

Nizam Ahmed, Arcot Sowmya

Proceedings Volume 2354, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: 3D Vision, Product Inspection, and Active Vision; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.189088
Event: Photonics for Industrial Applications, 1994, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a proposal to develop a flexible automation system for sample preparation and analysis in a chemistry laboratory without human assistance. The key to such automation is a robot arm, centrally placed with respect to a series of work stations containing balances, mixers, dispensers, centrifuges and analytical instruments. Object handling at each station and sample movement from one station to another is performed by the robot arm according to user-programmed procedures. The research emphasizes the analysis and modular decomposition of chemistry procedures, modeling the procedures in a computer system and integrating this model with robot arm and other instrumentation hardware involved in a complete automation of a chemistry laboratory.

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Nizam Ahmed and Arcot Sowmya "AutoLab: a robotics solution for flexible laboratory automation", Proc. SPIE 2354, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: 3D Vision, Product Inspection, and Active Vision, (13 October 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.189088

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