Robotics and Automation

Design and Product Development

Designing robots requires multi-disciplinary information and master skills in fabrication, mechanical, electronics, and electrical engineering, art, and user studies. Lead time is an important performance metric for a product development organization. Develop lead time models for product development organizations that involve multiple, concurrent projects with contention for human/technical resources. The goal is to explore how the lead times call be reduced using efficient scheduling, input control, load balancing, and variability reduction.