Applying commercial robotics to processing in a hazardous-environment glovebox
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, CA (United States)
Problems and their resolutions are described for a project to automate nuclear material processing operations through adaptation of commercial robotics. The project is adapting a gantry robot to a hazardous-material glovebox, developing unique peripheral equipment, and exploring advanced teleoperation techniques. The following problems and alternatives were addressed: suitable robot configuration; tradeoffs in controls, peripherals, flexibility, maintainability, and hardening for radiation, grit, and non-air environment; manually completing any operation; assured positive control over special materials; personnel safety in attended continuous operation modes. These are being successfully resolved in the staged program: from the feasibility demonstration to the current test-bed operating an actual processing cycle in the special atmosphere, to the projected production prototype system. 16 refs.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 5872004
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-107860; CONF-9110329--2; ON: DE92007305
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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