Robotics & Automation

Robotics and Automation

• Risk and mitigation
  • Drones & Robots
    • Robots (starship vendor)
      • Potential a driver outside Stanford
    • LBRE Drone - presented by Michael Fox
      • 2005 7 weeks
      • 2014 2 weeks
      • 2017 1 hour
      • Faces with use of areal drone due to federal regulation
      • Restriction of Drone over people of moving cards
        • By using a specific design drone, Stanford is allowed to use a drone over people and moving cards
      • Currently, three drones and four licensed pilots
      • FAA waiver
      • Significant areas of Stanford were covered
      • Other uses
        • 3D modeling
        • Building inspection
        • Emergency response
        • Parking counts
        • Remote trail and pathway inspection
        • Lake/creed inspection
        • Thermal inspection
        • For PR purposes (Areal shots)
      • Flying under 300 feet elevation
      • Stanford has a policy - on drone
        • A committee who reviews drone application
    • How do you evaluate the value?
      • Is it driven by economics or because there are cool?
        • They are deployed to fill in repetitive jobs to add efficiency. For example - a robot is transporting building materials in a job site - huge cost saving. This avoided a person or persons going back and forth to bring materials
    • School of Earth - John Freshwater
      • Drone used to capture aerial photography - to apply for crop production in 3rd world countries
      • Developed a guide on how to flying Drones - not broadly published
    • What kind of resource is available for Students to use Robots
      • The library has resources to borrow robots
      • GSE also has a maker space with tools used to do custom product - introducing STEM concept, and they can use it for their studies
  • Automation
    • Finance team
      • Service call for Finance calls
      • Triage analysis is done and found out that about 20% were not appropriately tagged - routed to a wrong person
      • Possible using data to have a machine learning approach​​​​​​​
  • Is there any group that works on AI and Machine Learning?
    • There is no centralized group - but business units and schools have projects on Robotics and Automation
    • LBRE invites to observe their drone operations