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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 - June 2006.

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.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Ralph Hollis - Research Professor <rhollis@cs.cmu.edu>

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• 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

• 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

• An Architecture for Agile Assembly
  R. Hollis and A. Quaid
  American Society of Precision Engineering 10th Annual Mtg, October, 1995.
  Download: pdf [383 KB], ps.gz [468 KB] copyrighted