Robotic Manufacturing Science and Engineering Lab
Sandia National Laboratories’ Robotic Manufacturing Science and Engineering Laboratory (RMSEL) is a 73,000 square foot facility for use by the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center (ISRC). The structure was built by DOE-DP to bring together all of Sandia’s robotics researchers in an environment conducive to Tech Transfer.
Related facilities include a 206-acre mobile robot test range and two high bay facilities large enough to accommodate virtually any system integration or prototyping effort.
The ISRC works in diverse application areas:
- Electromechanical medical devices
- Mechatronic technology for oil & gas pipeline inspection
- Inspection and assessment of physical infrastructure
- Automated landmine detection and removal
- Small lot flexible automation and materials handling
- Reducing time and cost of hazardous waste site cleanup while increasing worker safety
- Improving soldier effectiveness in battlefield operations
- Autonomous vehicle controls and collective behavior technology
- Automated material handling systems, used in conventional and nuclear weapons
- Flexible automated assembly and disassembly systems
- Complex systems simulation and analysis
- Aircraft maintenance and coatings
The ISRC's core technical competencies include:
- Automated planning and programming for machine systems
- High consequence systems integration
- Technologies for rapid system integration
- Sensor and model-based control
- Rapid reconfiguration
- Deployable dexterity for hazardous material handling
- Extreme mobility (land water and air)
- Dexterous mobile manipulation
- Microsystems implementation
- Engineered collectives
- Simulation-enabled analysis of systems and designs
- Verification and validation testing
- Technology commercialization with US and foreign collaborators
Using the technical base and application focus, the ISRC delivers value-added technologies to its customers:
- Military robotic system analysis
- Rapid physical and virtual prototyping test beds
- Operational first generation machine and software systems
- System engineering tools
The ISRC teams with Industry and other laboratories to deliver enabling technologies for complete solutions:
- System integrators
- Hardware suppliers
- Software suppliers
- Collaborative R&D
Availability
This facility is available to support applications that may benefit from its unique capabilities. The center places high priority on the safety and health of its users. Users are provided customized training in robotics safety and equipment use.
For more information, contact our user liaison, or visit our web site at www.sandia.gov/isrc.
