The Automation and Robotics Laboratory
Director:  Nicholas G. Odrey, Ph.D.

The Automation and Robotics Laboratory, established in 1981, occupies approximately 1500 square feet and contains industrial robots used for various applications. A flexible automation cell is also a focus of the laboratory. Research aspects include the intelligent control of discrete event dynamic systems as well as issues related to intelligent robots. Such research is directed to solving real-world applications. The second laboratory space occupies approximately 500 square feet and contains teaching robots in addition to serving as a sensors and software development laboratory .  In addition to it being a resource for the ISE department, it has also supported various special project courses and senior design projects of other departments at Lehigh.