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<title>Universities Space Automation Robotics Consortium home page.</title><center><h1> <!WA0><img src="http://www.cs.tamu.edu/research/robotics/usarc/usarc2.gif"> </h1></center><hr>The Universities Space Automation/Robotics Consortium (USARC) is a uniqueinfrastructure for distributed robotics, remote operations, anddistributed simulation research.  Using a object-oriented protocoland the Internet, this distributed laboratory consists of sites at fiveuniversities (  <!WA1><a href="http://www.tamu.edu/default.html"> Texas A&M University</a>, <!WA2><a href="http://www.utexas.edu"> University of Texas at Austin</a>,<!WA3><a href="http://www.uta.edu"> UT Arlington</a>, <!WA4><a href="http://cs.utep.edu/utep/main.html">UT El Paso </a>, and <!WA5><a href="http://riceinfo.rice.edu">Rice University</a>) and <!WA6><a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jsc/home.html">NASA's JohnsonSpace Center</a>.  The distributed laboratory configuration provides theopportunity to quantitatively study the effects of various systemcomponents and technologies on overall telerobotic task performance.  <br><br>Wehave successfully implemented and demonstrated (first in Feb. 1991) theability to execute representative inspection and manipulation taskswith multiple control, robot, and performance/workload monitoringsites simultaneously connected.  Operations are carried out on a routinebasis.  During the process, needs for hardware and software standardsdevelopment have been identified.  The current implementation provides thebasis to link government, industrial, and university facilities to realizea truly collaborative research, development, and educational environment.<hr><h2> Further Information: </h2><ul><li><!WA7><a href="http://www.cs.tamu.edu/research/robotics/usarc/unfinished.html">Research descriptions</a><li><!WA8><a href="http://www.cs.tamu.edu/research/robotics/usarc/unfinished.html">Publications</a><li><!WA9><a href="http://www.cs.tamu.edu/research/robotics/usarc/unfinished.html">Personnel</a><li>Lab Information<ul><li><!WA10><a href="http://www.cs.tamu.edu/research/robotics/robotics_homepage.html">Texas A&M Robotics Group</a><li><!WA11><a href="http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov">	NASA JSC Automation and Robotics Division</a></ul></ul><hr>This page is still under construction.  Send any comments or suggestionsfor this page to <!WA12><a href="http://www.cs.tamu.edu/research/robotics/usarc/Sean/home.html">Sean Graves</a> <em>(sean@cs.tamu.edu)</em>. <br>