Compact and Intelligent Robotic System

Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop an innovative, affordable compact and intelligent robotic system with an open system architecture for automated shipboard handling and stowage of organic offboard vehicles on DD(X) and other U.S. Navyships. The proposed Compact and Intelligent Robotic System (CIROS) will minimize damage to ships and injury to crew by bringing the intelligence-programming the robot with planning and operation sequence algorithms, dexterity-dual-arm robotic operation,and performance-optimizing operation sequences to current and future robotics technologies. CIROS offers a major innovation in robotics, fast and efficient inverse kinematics for a high-degree-of-freedom manipulator and collision detection and avoidancefor manipulator operation. POC's innovative real-time inverse kinematics, with broad applicability across the field of robotics, will bring the safest and the most flexible robotic operation to a shipboard environment, and our proprietary collisiondetection and avoidance algorithm for operation of manipulators will bring the safest and the fastest manipulator operations to at-sea operation. The CIROS will be a universal autonomous robot that can handle many types and shapes of objects, and will bereconfigurable for other applications such as weapon handling, manned aircraft handling, and material transfer in addition to organic offboard vehicle handling. POC's proposed CIROS will strongly benefit many commercial operations, including factoryautomation, hazardous area assessment such as in nuclear power plants and under sea, and robotic surgery. It will also advance shipping and stowing functions performed at shipping companies such as UPS and FedEx, as well as factory automation foroperations not normally performed by robots such as safety inspections and flexible assembly line operations.