Progressive Laboratory Automation

Managing laboratory automation

This paper discusses the process of managing automated systems through their life cycles within the quality-control (QC) laboratory environment. The focus is on the process of directing and managing the evolving automation of a laboratory; system examples are given. The author shows how both task and data systems have evolved, and how they interrelate. A BIG picture, or continuum view, is prese...

Progressive automation to gain appropriate trust in management automation systems

This paper summarizes the work of the working group on “Progressive Automation” at Dagstuhl-Seminar 09201 “Self-Healing and Self-Adaptive Systems”, May 5th – May 10th 2009. In many management automation scenarios, the involved people (both developers and users of the MAS) tend to not understand all the effects of automation well. This is a problem, because both undertrust and overtrust have neg...

Remote Laboratory for Industrial Automation

In this paper we present a remotely accessed experiment on industrial automation. Using this remote access, students may verify the correctness of their previous work and increase the productivity of laboratory classes. The experiment provides a web page for interfacing with a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) which controls an electro-pneumatic process. Students may remotely download the pro...

Decentralized management of laboratory automation

It is generally believed that successful robot users have dedicated centralized robotic groups. While such a generalization holds some merit historically, the availability of newer more user-friendly robots and workstations in recent years and a more computer-literate work force today is changing the way that automation can be managed. Decentralization recognizes robots and workstations as addi...

A comprehensive laboratory automation system