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Infrastructure & Capabilities
1,400+ Sq. Ft. • Thornbrough Building (Room 3405) • Industrial Arms • Vision & Sensor Rigs Advanced Robotics Research Laboratory
Located in the Albert A. Thornbrough Building (Room 3405) in the School of Engineering, our 1,400+ sq. ft. robotics laboratory supports hands-on prototyping, industrial robotic manipulators, high-speed vision inspection rigs, mobile harvesting platforms, and assistive biomechatronics workstations.
Facility Summary
Floor Area 1,400+ Square Feet
Hardware Rigs 7+ Active Instruments
Scholarly Output 51+ Indexed Papers
Global Impact 1,177+ Citations
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CFI / OIT / NSERC Co-Funded Infrastructure
Central Facility Overview
Integrated Research Laboratory
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Room 3405 • Thornbrough Building
Robotics Institute Laboratory
straighten 1,400+ Sq. Ft.
Our unified 1,400+ sq. ft. central research facility in the Albert A. Thornbrough Building serves as the primary laboratory for high-TRL testing, robotics manipulation, multi-spectral machine vision, and real-time intelligent control across agricultural, industrial, and biomedical robotics.
Technical Infrastructure Specifications
Total Floor Area 1,400+ Sq. Ft.
Power & Air Industrial 3-Phase & Regulated Pneumatics
Rapid Prototyping Bambu Lab X1-Carbon (Carbon-Fiber 3D Printing)
Perception & Compute 64-Beam LiDAR, Spatial AI, RGB-D & Real-Time Workstations
Core Laboratory Capabilities
check_circle AgRobotics & High-Wire Canopy Harvesting Simulation
check_circle Multi-Modal Machine Vision Inspection (High-Resolution RGB & Infrared)
check_circle High-Density 3D Spatial Perception & Wide-Angle LiDAR Mapping (Ouster OS0-64)
check_circle Robotic Manipulation & Lab Automation (Fanuc LR Mate 200iC/5L, Thermo Fisher F5)
check_circle Rapid Prototyping & Carbon-Fiber Additive Manufacturing (Bambu Lab X1C)
check_circle Spatial AI Edge Inference (Luxonis OAK-D, Intel RealSense D435i/D405)
Hardware Directory
Core Infrastructure & Equipment Inventory
Integrated research instruments and precision robotics hardware deployed in Room 3405.
| Equipment Category | Manufacturer & Model | Key Specifications | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Manipulator | Fanuc LR Mate 200iC / 5L | 6-DOF long-arm articulated robot, 5 kg payload, 892 mm reach, R-30iA Controller | Thornbrough Building, Room 3405 |
| Articulated Manipulator | Thermo Fisher Scientific F5 Robot | 6-DOF articulated laboratory robot, high-repeatability positioning, automated workcell integration | Thornbrough Building, Room 3405 |
| 3D LiDAR Sensor | Ouster OS0-64 (Rev 6) | 64-channel ultra-wide view digital LiDAR, 90° vertical FOV, calibrated ambient & intensity data | Thornbrough Building, Room 3405 |
| Depth Sensing & 3D Vision | Intel RealSense Depth Cameras (D435i, D405) | Wide-FOV stereo depth with integrated 6-DOF IMU (D435i) & sub-millimeter high-precision close-range RGB-D (D405) | Thornbrough Building, Room 3405 |
| Spatial AI & Perception | Luxonis OAK-D Spatial AI Camera | Stereo depth + 4K RGB, on-board 4 TOPS Myriad X spatial AI neural inference, real-time object localization | Thornbrough Building, Room 3405 |
| Industrial Machine Vision | Machine Vision Cameras (RGB & IR) | High-resolution industrial matrix cameras, visible RGB, near-infrared (NIR) & infrared (IR) multi-spectral illumination | Thornbrough Building, Room 3405 |
| Additive Manufacturing & Prototyping | Bambu Lab X1-Carbon (X1C) | Dual auto-bed leveling, multi-material/color AMS, carbon-fiber reinforced printing, micro-lidar first layer inspection | Thornbrough Building, Room 3405 |