Enhanced Control and Sensing for the REMOTEC ANDROS MK VI Robot Metadata

Metadata describes a digital item, providing (if known) such information as creator, publisher, contents, size, relationship to other resources, and more. Metadata may also contain "preservation" components that help us to maintain the integrity of digital files over time.

Available Formats

Dublin Core: XML Dublin Core: JSON Dublin Core: Text Dublin Core: RDF/XML UNTL: XML Access METS: XML

Title

  • Main Title Enhanced Control and Sensing for the REMOTEC ANDROS MK VI Robot

Creator

  • Author: Spelt, P. F.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
  • Author: Harvey, H. W.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: REMOTEC, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Research.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: Tennessee
    Additional Info: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1998-08-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc., and REMOTEC, Inc., explored methods of providing operator feedback for various work actions of the ANDROS Mk VI teleoperated robot. In a hazardous environment, an extremely heavy workload seriously degrades the productivity of teleoperated robot operators. This CRADA involved the addition of computer power to the robot along with a variety of sensors and encoders to provide information about the robot`s performance in and relationship to its environment. Software was developed to integrate the sensor and encoder information and provide control input to the robot. ANDROS Mk VI robots are presently used by numerous electric utilities to perform tasks in reactors where substantial exposure to radiation exists, as well as in a variety of other hazardous environments. Further, this platform has potential for use in a number of environmental restoration tasks, such as site survey and detection of hazardous waste materials. The addition of sensors and encoders serves to make the robot easier to manage and permits tasks to be done more safely and inexpensively (due to time saved in the completion of complex remote tasks). Prior research on the automation of mobile platforms with manipulators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory`s Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research (CESAR, B&R code KC0401030) Laboratory, a BES-supported facility, indicated that this type of enhancement is effective. This CRADA provided such enhancements to a successful working teleoperated robot for the first time. Performance of this CRADA used the CESAR laboratory facilities and expertise developed under BES funding.
  • Physical Description: 11 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Feedback
  • Keyword: Robots
  • STI Subject Categories: 05 Nuclear Fuels
  • Keyword: Progress Report
  • Keyword: Measuring Instruments
  • Keyword: Computerized Control Systems
  • Keyword: Uses
  • STI Subject Categories: 42 Engineering Not Included In Other Categories

Source

  • Other Information: PBD: [1998]

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE97008124
  • Report No.: ORNL--97008124
  • Grant Number: AC05-84OR21400
  • DOI: 10.2172/661618
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 661618
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc703200

Note

  • Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE97008124
Back to Top of Screen