7 papers
Human-Aware Robot Behaviour in Self-Driving Labs
Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Anna Kisil, Abigail Bentley +3
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are rapidly transforming research in chemistry and materials science to accelerate new discoveries. Mobile robot chemists (MRCs) play a pivotal rol…
PREVENT: Proactive Risk Evaluation and Vigilant Execution of Tasks for Mobile Robotic Chemists using Multi-Modal Behavior Trees
Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Zhengxue Zhou, Francisco Munguia-Galeano +5
Mobile robotic chemists are a fast growing trend in the field of chemistry and materials research. However, so far these mobile robots lack workflow awareness skills. This poses th…
Chemist Eye: A Visual Language Model-Powered System for Safety Monitoring and Robot Decision-Making in Self-Driving Laboratories
Francisco Munguia-Galeano, Zhengxue Zhou, Satheeshkumar Veeramani +4
The integration of robotics and automation into self-driving laboratories (SDLs) can introduce additional safety complexities, in addition to those that already apply to convention…
Multimodal Behaviour Trees for Robotic Laboratory Task Automation
Hatem Fakhruldeen, Arvind Raveendran Nambiar, Satheeshkumar Veeramani +4
Laboratory robotics offer the capability to conduct experiments with a high degree of precision and reproducibility, with the potential to transform scientific research. Trivial an…
FLIP: Flowability-Informed Powder Weighing
Nikola Radulov, Alex Wright, Thomas Little +2
Autonomous manipulation of powders remains a significant challenge for robotic automation in scientific laboratories. The inherent variability and complex physical interactions of…
An Open-source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces
Francisco Munguia-Galeano, Louis Longley, Satheeshkumar Veeramani +4
In the context of self-driving laboratories (SDLs), ensuring automated and error-free capping is crucial, as it is a ubiquitous step in sample preparation. Automated capping in SDL…