The Chemical Synthesis Automation team continued the work of previous MQPs towards developing a robot platform that can automate steps of a chemical synthesis process. We examined the robot’s equipment and reaction mechanisms to ideate an intuitive user interface by which chemists can input synthesis instructions. We designed a graphical LabView interface for manual input, and proposed constructing an intermediate language to compile the input into a finite state machine.

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Creator

• Fleming, Lauren E.

Subject

• Industry
• Computing
• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 4966
• E-project-121120-112840

Keyword

• automation
• graphical user interface
• chemical synthesis
• state machine

Advisor

• Smith, Therese Mary
• Putnam, Craig B.

Year

• 2020

Sponsor

• AbbVie

Date created

• 2020-12-11

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-03-09