TRACLabs

Over the past 15 years, TRACLabs has been on the forefront of robotics and automation technology. Learn more about the history of robotics and the pivotal role TRACLabs has played ...more	TRACLabs is predominantly an R&D team developing custom software and technology for NASA, the DOD and the private sector. However, we do have a growing number of proprietary products available for purchase. Contact us for a custom product or solution.	Our researchers are internationally recognized for thier contributions to robotics and artificial intelligence. We work hand-in-hand with the government, universities & the private sector to conduct cutting edge research into robotic mechanisms, intelligent robot control, data interpretation/ summarization & process control.

9/21/2010 Lucas inventor is pumped up about tire-inflating robot For decades, inventor George Carter watched as Americans wobbled down highways on low tires. Carter, who developed the Photon laser-tag game in 1984, says he realized 20 years ago that the problem of underinflated tires would only worsen with the disappearance of full-service gas stations – and he, of course, began mulling over solutions. ...more 6/22/2010 TRACLabs awarded Army human-robot interaction contract The US Army has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract worth $70,000 over six months. The contract is for demonstrating the use of human tracking and gesture recognition to control a mobile robot. TRACLabs Inc. is teaming with researchers from Brown University. 6/9/2010 TRACLabs awarded NASA robotics contract NASA has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract worth $600,000 over two years to develop context award image manipulation software for managing data collected during NASA missions. TRACLabs Inc. is teaming with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley to complete this project for NASA Ames Research Center. 05/25/2010 TRACLabs awarded National Science Foundation contract The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract worth $150,000 over six months. The contract is to design a wearable computer vision system that will assist the visually impaired in performing navigation and human interaction tasks. This contract allows TRACLabs to take technology developed for NASA and the Army and use it to assist the visually impaired population. TRACLabs is teaming with researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 04/09/2010 TRACLabs awarded Navy testbed contract The US Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract worth $70,000 over six months. The contract is to design a testbed that the Navy can use to evaluate spatio-temporal reasoning systems for unmanned vehicles. TRACLabs will be working with researchers at MIT, the University of Missouri and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute while performing this work. NEWS ARCHIVE	The Biclops Pan/Tilt (PT) mechanism is a two-axis motion control device for aiming one or more sensors, typically cameras. Since Biclops is compact, lightweight, and has low power consumption, it is well suited for robotic vehicle applications. Biclops comes standard with mounting tabs for attachment to a flat surface and also provides a standard 1/4-20 tripod mount. All axes are under closed-loop control, with motion commands supplied by an external computer. MORE ON BICLOPS PT	Data Interpretation & Summarization Complicated systems such as space vehicles, unmanned air vehicles and robots produce huge amounts of data that must be interpreted and summarized. Often this interpretation and summarization is done manually which is costly, error-prone and time-consuming. Our researchers create systems that automatically interpret and summarize data from a wide variety of sources. This work, funded by NASA and DARPA, focuses on monitoring and control of manned and unmanned assets. Mobile Manipulation NASA awarded TRACLabs a grant to design and build the next generation of mobile manipulators for NASA robots. The new light-weight, low-power manipulator sports seven-degrees-of-freedom and is completely self-contained by embedding all electronics within itself. Its universal coupling allows for automatic change-out of end effectors for a plug & play like flexibility. TRACLabs, in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon University, is also designing software control algorithms to couple the manipulator control with the robot base control. RESEARCH GRANTS