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Center for High Confidence Cooperative Systems |
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 Director: Prof. David Song, North Carolina A&T State University
The Center complements and integrates existing expertise and activities at NIA, fully supporting the NIA mission of NIA while meeting the national standards of research in interdisciplinary HCCS areas. The HCCS research agenda strengthens collaboration among scientists from different backgrounds and institutions, and generates new paradigms and tools for the design of highly reliable and autonomous systems in many safety-critical applications, including medical devices, transportation, space exploration, and national security needs.
The broader impact comes in the long-term with the increased collaboration between NIA and other major institutions as well as national research labs. The Center actively engages in scientific research and is developing advanced laboratory facilities.
More specifically, the Center facilitates learning, investigation and research in the multidisciplinary field of cooperative systems engineering. Students are able to develop a better understanding of cooperative systems theory and are able to put that theory into practice. The HCCS supports and enhances such activities as:
- Practices of analogue, digital and computer control
- Process controls, adaptive systems and intelligent instrumentation
- High-speed motion control, robotics, vision sensing, recognition and machine perception
- Use of artificial intelligence in control systems
- Mechatronics: variable speed drives and power electronics
- Systems design and simulation
- CAD/CAM, integrated automation and intelligent robotic welding systems
- Robotic systems
- Variable speed drives, servomotor drives, rotary and linear stepping
- Motor drives, motion control systems, fuzzy logic control and neural networks
- Vision systems and image processing software
- Process control and servo-training systems
- Non-contact (electromagnetic) suspension systems
- Magnetic bearings
- Power electronics training
- Data acquisition and control software
- PLCs, micro-controllers and development systems
- AutoCAD (with AME)
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