Design of a Simulation Environment for Laboratory Management
by Robot Organizations
Keywords
- Simulation Environment
- Robot Organization
- Laboratories for Space Station
- Robot Cognitive System
Abstract
This paper describes the basic concepts needed for a simulation environment
capable of supporting the design of robot organizations for managing chemical,
or similar, laboratories on the planned U.S. Space Station. The environment
should facilitate a thorough study of the problems to be encountered in
assigning the responsibility of managing a nonlife-critical, but mission
valuable, process to an organized group of robots. In the first phase of the
work, we seek to employ the simulation environment to develop robot cognitive
systems and strategies for effective multi-robot management of chemical
experiments. Later phases will explore human-robot interaction and development
of robot autonomy.
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