Research - Robotics, Automation and Manufacturing
Participating Members: ( William R. Hamel, Gary V. Smith)
Purpose: To perform research and development in the broad areas of robotics and automation as they apply to manufacturing automation, industrial controls, remote operations in hazardous environments, military operations, and space applications. R&D projects are performed for local/regional industries, national laboratories, and federal agencies.
Capabilities
- Telerobotic systems for hazardous environments including variable impedance and scaling and Intelligently assisted telerobotics for complex task execution
- Advanced teleoperations including human-machine cooperative telerobotics with uncertain sensor and model data and human factors of manual controllers
- Redundant manipulator systems and control
- Flexible manipulator control
- Sensor-guided manipulation
- Structural modeling and compensation of robot manipulators
- Human-interactive 3D task space geometric modeling
- Advanced mechatronics
- Transmission-based servoactuators
- Open architecture machine tool controls
- Real-time distributed digital control architectures
- Brick manufacturing automation and inspection
- 3D simulation and modeling of automation systems
- Unmanned ground vehicle systems including vehicle dynamics and control, mobility characterization and sensor pointing controls
Point of Contact: William R. Hamel (865-974-6588, whamel@utk.edu)