The BIRTH Lab is equipped with the following equipment and technologies.
- A 3-DoF custom friction/adhesion characterization system equipped with an Interface Force™ 6A68E-F11 6-axis load cell (20 kN max force; ± 0.5 N accuracy), an XYZ stage, a linear actuator in the Z direction for high precision displacement and velocity control, and an Interface Force™ BX8 data acquisition (DAQ) system
- A 3-DoF custom friction/adhesion characterization system equipped with an Interface Force™ 6A27A-F11 6-axis vacuum-compatible load cell (200 N max force; ± 5 mN accuracy), three vacuum-compatible motorized linear actuators, a vacuum chamber, a turbo pump, a heating/cooling stage, a high-sensitivity CMOS high-speed camera with a Navitar Zoom 6000 Lens System, and an Interface Force™ BX8 data acquisition (DAQ) system
- Three THORLABS MTS50/M-Z8E 50 mm Motorized Stages with Controllers
- Two single-axis Transducer Techniques load cells (GSO-50 and GSO-100)
- Polymer casting equipment including a 2.75-quart Pyrex vacuum chamber, a VP4D dual stage pump, a digital hot plate, and a 120g, 0.1mg digital analytical balance scale
- A custom silicone 3D printer equipped with both Zmorph thick paste and plastic extruders
- Wellzoom B2 Desktop Filament Extruder for making 3D printing filaments using different materials
- A Fiber Brag Grating Sensing System capable of measuring strain, shape, and force in 3D
- A Universal Robot 16e six-axis robot arm (payload of 16 kg, pose repeatability of 50m, reach of 900 mm)
- Roboteurs RBX1 3D printed six-axis robot arm
- Markforged Onyx Pro 3D Printer
- XYZprinting da Vinci 1.0 Pro 3 in 1 (3D Printer/ 3D Scanner/ Laser Engraver)
- Othermill Pro machine for fabricating PCBs and milling aluminum, delrin, and similar materials with 0.001-inch tolerance
- Optitrack 3D motion capture system with six Flex 13 cameras (120 fps @ 1280 x 1024 pixels resolution)
- One Edgertronic SC1 high speed camera (22,336 fps @ 192 x 96 pixels resolution and 621 fps @ 1280 x 1024 pixels resolution)
- One Edgertronic SC2 high speed camera (23,452 fps @ 1280 x 96 pixels resolution and 2,797 fps @ 1280 x 864 pixels resolution)
- A custom temperature control unit that can control temperature between -190o C and 400o C with a resolution of 0.1o C
- Newport Integrity 3 VCS™ Optical Table
- Kewaunee Supreme Air general-purpose fume hood with velocity of 105 fpm and sash level 18”
- A HS-EZ4 compact spin coater with max spin speed of 10,000 RPM and speed resolution of 1 RPM
- A custom electromagnetic coil system composed of eight electromagnetic coils, three Grasshopper3 high-speed cameras, VZM 200i zoom imaging lenses, controllers and power supplies and a PC with NI LabVIEW software for controlling this setup
- Lakeshore handheld Gaussmeter for accurate magnetic field measurements from 0.1 G to 20 kG (0.01 mT to 2 T) with a resolution of 100 mG
- A 2 m by 1 m custom fluidized bed setup equipped with exhaust and filtration systems, a motion capture system, and a laser scanner for capturing the 3D topography of the granular surface
- A 6 m by 0.5 m modular and portable granular testbed equipped with a motion capture system
- Sieve shaker for accurate particle separation
- One Dell Precision Tower T5810
- Four Dell Precision T1700 Workstation Mini Towers
- Press drill, power drill, band saw, and hand tools