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Architecture for Agile Assembly (AAA) Head: Ralph Hollis Contact: Jay Gowdy Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated lab/group: Microdynamic Systems Laboratory For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - January 1999.

Project Description

The primary goal of the Agile Assembly Architecture (AAA) is to shorten the time to bring a complex, high-precision product such as a disk drive from the prototype phase to the production phase from months to weeks, or even days.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Ralph Hollis	Research Professor	rhollis@cs.cmu.edu

Recent publications [View all 11 publications]

• Calibrating Courier/Overhead Manipulator Pairs in Minifactory
  R. Schlender
  master's thesis, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005.
  Download: pdf [1126 KB] copyrighted

• Free-roaming planar motors: toward autonomous precision planar mobile robots
  T. Lauwers, Z.K. Edmondson, and R. Hollis
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), Vol. 5, May, 2004, pp. 4498 - 4503. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [909 KB] copyrighted

• Distributed Coordination in Modular Precision Assembly Systems
  A. Rizzi, J. Gowdy, and R. Hollis
  Vol. 20, No. 10, October, 2001, pp. 819 - 838. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [772 KB] copyrighted

• A high-performance network infrastructure and protocols for distributed automation
  S. Kume and A. Rizzi
  Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '01), Vol. 3, May, 2001, pp. 3121 - 3126. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [516 KB] copyrighted

• A Planar Robot for High-Performance Manipulation
  A. Quaid
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-19, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2000.
  Download: pdf [4176 KB], ps.gz [5171 KB] copyrighted

• Distributed Coverage of Rectilinear Environments
  Z. Butler
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2000.
  Download: pdf [1453 KB], ps.gz [2501 KB] copyrighted

• An Integrated Interface Tool for the Architecture for Agile Assembly
  J. Gowdy and Z. Butler
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, May, 1999, pp. 3097 - 3102. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [315 KB], ps.gz [681 KB] copyrighted

• Programming in the Architecture for Agile Assembly
  J. Gowdy and A. Rizzi
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, May, 1999, pp. 3103 - 3108. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [187 KB], ps.gz [86 KB] copyrighted

• Integrated Precision 3-DOF Position Sensor for Planar Linear Motors
  Z. Butler, A. Rizzi, and R. Hollis
  Proc. of IEEE Int'l. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, May, 1998, pp. 3109-3114. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [284 KB], ps.gz [492 KB] copyrighted

• Agile Assembly Architecture: An Agent-Based Approach to Modular Precision Assembly Systems
  A. Rizzi, J. Gowdy, and R. Hollis
  IEEE Int'l. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, April, 1997, pp. 1511 - 1516. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [235 KB], ps.gz [150 KB] copyrighted