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A MODULAR ACTUATOR ARCHITECTURE FOR ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Complexes perform numerous hazardous material handling operations within the confines of a glovebox. The DOE is continuing to seek more efficient and safer means of handling these materials inside gloveboxes rather than the conventional, labor-intensive method through lead lined gloves. The use of glovebox automation technology will also be critical to the DOE in its efforts to comply with its mandated ALARA principles in handling the hazardous mater… more

Date: July 1, 2001

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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MODULAR MANIPULATOR FOR ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS

ARM Automation, Inc. is developing a framework of modular actuators that can address the DOE's wide range of robotics needs. The objective of this effort is to demonstrate the effectiveness of this technology by constructing a manipulator from these actuators within a glovebox for Automated Plutonium Processing (APP). At the end of the project, the system of actuators was used to construct several different manipulator configurations, which accommodate common glovebox tasks such as repackaging.… more

Date: July 31, 2001

Creator: Joseph W. Geisinger, Ph.D.