Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:46:30 GMT Server: Apache/1.1.1 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 2165 Last-modified: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 17:19:22 GMT Universities Space Automation Robotics Consortium home page.


The Universities Space Automation/Robotics Consortium (USARC) is a unique infrastructure for distributed robotics, remote operations, and distributed simulation research. Using a object-oriented protocol and the Internet, this distributed laboratory consists of sites at five universities ( Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, UT Arlington, UT El Paso , and Rice University) and NASA's Johnson Space Center. The distributed laboratory configuration provides the opportunity to quantitatively study the effects of various system components and technologies on overall telerobotic task performance.

We have successfully implemented and demonstrated (first in Feb. 1991) the ability to execute representative inspection and manipulation tasks with multiple control, robot, and performance/workload monitoring sites simultaneously connected. Operations are carried out on a routine basis. During the process, needs for hardware and software standards development have been identified. The current implementation provides the basis to link government, industrial, and university facilities to realize a truly collaborative research, development, and educational environment.

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This page is still under construction. Send any comments or suggestions for this page to Sean Graves (sean@cs.tamu.edu).