Intelligent Manufacturing
Research Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tennessee State University
Contact Person: Dr. Amir Shirkhodaie
AVAILABLE HARDWARE
1. Two Five-Axis AMATROL Robots With Controller and Teach Pendants
2. One Elliptical Programmable Conveyor System With Bar-Coded Palettes
3. One Seven-Axis CRS Robotic Arm With Seven-Foot Track
4. One Servo Parallel Jaw Gripper and Controller
5. One Six-Axis Force/Torque Sensor With Controller
6. Two Five-Axis Scara Type Adept Robots With Adept-Motion Controllers
7. Two Complete Adept Machine Vision With Cameras, Software and Hardware
8. Two Adept Black-and-White Cameras With Zoom Lenses
9. One Five-Axis Mitsubishi Robot With Four-Foot Track
10. One Mitsubishi Machine Vision With Camera, Software and Hardware
11. Two Programmable Logic Controllers With Multi-Channel I/O
12. One Robotic Mobile Robot With Custom-made Sonar Sensor
13. Flexible Manufacturing CIM Systems and Peripherals
14. Two Table-Top Three-Axis Milling Machines
15. One Table-Top Lathe Machine
16. One Three-Axis Precision Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM)
17. Two Programmable Logic Controllers
18. Flexible Manufacturing CIM Systems and Peripherals
19. Non-destructive Shaker Machine For Vibration Analysis.
20. One Motor-Fan Vibrational Testing Equipment
21. Two Portable Vibration Signal Analyzers and Transducers
22. Experimental Bearing Testbed
23. Magnetic-Bearing Testbed
24. FDM Rapid Prototyping Machine
25. Fadal Engineering 3-Axis Milling/Machining Center
26. Thermoplastic Prototyping Machine
27. One All-Terrain Double-Differential Mobile Robot
28. One Four-Wheel All-Terrain Mobile Robot
29. TIGER Four-Wheel Independent Suspension System Mobile Robot
30. Seven Trilobot Mobile Robots
31. Instrumentation and Measurement Equipment
AVAILABLE COMPUTERS AND PERIPHERALS
1. One Silicon Graphics, Indigo Impact Workstation
2. Twenty Pentium PCs
3. Six 486-PCs
4. Four Laser-jet Printers
5. Two HP Plotter
AVAILABLE SOFTWARE
1. FMCell, A Complete Robotic System Modeling and Control Software
2. RAPL-II Robot Programming Software
3. RobComm CRS Robot Communication and Programming Software
4. RV-M1 Robot Communication and Programming Software
5. Adept-V+ Robot Programming Software and Workcell Controller
6. AutoSimulation Software for Manufacturing System Modeling and Simulation
7. AutoCAD, Version 13, for 2D and 3D CAD Design and Drafting
8. SmartCAM for CNC Milling Machine Code Generation
9. MathLab and Associated Developmental Tools
10. Neural Network Developmental Tools
11. InfraLogic, Fuzzy Logic Developmental Tools
12. MSC, Predictive Engineering and Solid Modeling and FEM Analysis
Package
13. ADAMS, Linkage and Mechanical System Design, Simulation, and Animation
14. ACSL, Dynamic System Simulator
15. Algor, Finite Element Package
16. WorkingModel, Mechanical System Simulator
17. AutoSimulation Manufacturing Modeling and Simulation Software
18. DADiSP Signal Processing Tools
19. LabWindows, Data Acquisition and Data Modeling Package
20. LabView, Data Acquisition and Data Modeling Package
21. MATRA DataVision STRIM, Styling, Plastics, Tooling, and Prototyping
Package
22. MATRA DataVision Prelude Manufacturing Package
23. MATRA DataVision Euclid 2D/3D Solid Modeling, Milling, Turning,
& MoldMaking
24. MARTA DataVision Prelude Design 2D/3D CAD Package
25. ENTEK Emonitor Machinery Fault Diagnostic Package
26. Matrox Image Processing and Analysis Library Package
27. Unigraphics CAD/CAM/CAE Software
28. SolidWorks CAD/CAM Software
29. ProEngineer CAD/CAM/CAE Software
Intelligent Manufacturing Research Lab
Machinery Condition Monitoring (MCM) Lab
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AVAILABLE EXPERIMENTAL TESTBEDS:
MOTOR-FAN EXPERIMENTAL TESTBED

BEARING EXPERIMENTAL TESTBED
REVOLVE MAGNETIC BEARING TESTBED
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Lab
Flexible Manufacturing Lab
Tactical Mobility Robotic Lab



CAD-CAM-CAE Lab


