Developments and experimental tests on a laboratory-scale drilling automation system

Planetary Drilling Automation Blind Tests

Introduction: Commercial drilling, even deep-sea or remote, depends on human teleoperation. Lightspeed delays mean that coring and drilling beyond the Moon requires automation in order to not get stuck or risk mission failure. The Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration (DAME) is a NASA project for developing critical-path drilling software technologies. The DAME project’s purpose was to devel...

A comprehensive laboratory automation system

Developments in laboratory automation–just a matter of time

Automatic analysis is well established as a subject area, but there is still no adequate definition of the area that the subject embraces. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), has sought, through its Commission of Analytical Nomenclature, to offer rigorous definitions and to provide a common international terminology. Automation is defined as: 'the use of combinations ...

Analysis and Implementation of Laboratory Automation System

Quest Diagnostics is a large company that analyzes millions of medical specimens every day using a variety of analytical equipment. It is implementing a fully automated line in a major laboratory. The automation line is Quest's first major automation initiative and will serve as a pilot for future initiatives. An important element of implementing this initiative is the transition from manual to...

System/7 in a Hierarchical Laboratory Automation System

is an implementation of a three-level computer hierarchy that provides a high degree of perjormance, availability, and ease ($use for laboratory automation applications. Laboratory automation, a subset of sensor-based computer use, is an area of computer application that is characterized by the computer elements servicing user-attached devices. These are usually devices such as instruments, tes...