Facilities in CMS

CMS lab has multi-million dollar facilities to test material characterization, SMH/NDE and autonomous robots including UGVs and MAVs. The facilities can be utilized on a contract basis. Contact Director Tomonari Furukawa for details.

Test facility for material characterization

• Shimadzu AG-IS 100kN Universal Testing Machine
• Optical full-field strain measurement system (5 digital cameras)
• Personal computer
• 42-in LCD monitor

Test facility for SMH/NDE

• Denso VS-6556 6-axis robot
• Spectrum analyzer
• PZT sensor network
• Ultrasound probes

Test sites for robot demonstration

• JOUSTER
  • 2,000 sqf building
  • 22 acre outdoor test site
• JOUSTER 2
  • 500 sqf indoor test site
  • 5 acrea outdoor test site
  • 100 sqf control room

Platform- and hardware-in-the-loop simulator (PHILS)

• 12 Shuttle computers
• 8 EeeBox computers
• 8 40-in Toshiba LCD monitors
• 8 19-in Gateway LCD monitors
• 1 Sharp LCD wide screen projector
• 1 Netgear Gigabit switch

Robot vehicles

• Full-size autonomous electric ground vehicles
• Mini-size autonomous UGVs
• MAVs

Facility for MAVs research

• Wind tunnel
• MAVSTAR rotary-wing MAVs