IEEE San Antonio Life Members September Meeting
Southwest Research Institute’s Robotics and Automation Section has designed, installed, and maintained large-scale robotic systems providing media-blast paint removal for F-16 and similar aircraft for over 25 years. The group is now designing an advanced laser-based mobile-robotic coating removal system that can process the largest commercial aircraft. The mobile robot is 15 m tall, has a 13 m reach, and deftly wields a 20 kW CO2 laser.
Michael Rigney will present a technical overview and conduct a tour of the Laser Process Development Laboratory. Dr. Rigney has been at SwRI since 1997 and has extensive experience in machine vision for perception, inspection, quality assurance, sensor integration, multispectral imaging, 3D imaging and related technologies.
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- Date: 15 Sep 2016
- Time: 11:00 AM to 01:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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- Tom Slick Avenue
- San Antonio, Texas
- United States
- Building: Cafeteria
- Starts 22 August 2016 02:50 PM
- Ends 13 September 2016 05:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr. Michael Rigney of SwRI
An advanced laser-based mobile-robotic coating removal system
Southwest Research Institute’s Robotics and Automation Section has designed, installed, and maintained large-scale robotic systems providing media-blast paint removal for F-16 and similar aircraft for over 25 years. The group is now designing an advanced laser-based mobile-robotic coating removal system that can process the largest commercial aircraft. The mobile robot is 15 m tall, has a 13 m reach, and deftly wields a 20 kW CO2 laser.
Biography:
Dr. Rigney has been at SwRI since 1997 and has extensive experience in machine vision for perception, inspection, quality assurance, sensor integration, multispectral imaging, 3D imaging and related technologies.
Dr. Michael Rigney of SwRI
An advanced laser-based mobile-robotic coating removal system
Biography:
Agenda
TIME: Plan to arrive at the Institute Cafeteria between 11:00 and 11:30
Lunch and presentation from 11:30 am to 12:30
Laboratory tour from 12:30 till 1:00
LOCATION: Southwest Research Institute
Lunch will be at the Institute Cafeteria. This will not be a served lunch - each person will go through the cafeteria line and take their tray into a private dining room. Each person will pay for their own lunch in this arrangement - but the SwRI cafeteria is fairly reasonable.
The tour and demonstrations will be in the Heavy Article Test Facility, Building 283. It will be necessary to drive from the cafeteria to Bldg. 283 and directions will be provided at the cafeteria.
IMPORTANT:
We will need to have RSVP's so that name badges can be prepared for visitors.
Any non-US citizens are requested to contact Ernest Franke (210-317-5757 or e.franke@ieee.org) to confirm arrangements.
DIRECTIONS:
Enter SwRI at the main entrance on Culebra Road, about 1 mile inside Loop 410. You do not need to stop at the guardhouse during normal working hours.
Follow the main road (Tom Slick Avenue) up the hill. The cafeteria is on the right and identified as Building 161. Parking is available just in front of the cafeteria. Go through the cafeteria line and look for a dining room to the left of the cash register.