Company Profile

TRACLabs Inc
Profile last edited on: 1/8/20      CAGE: 37ZK6      UEI: CEL6Q7QSVHA7

Business Identifier: Industrial automation, electronic procedures, and robotics applications
Year Founded
2005
First Award
2007
Latest Award
2023
Program Status
Active
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Location Information

16969 North Texas Avenue Suite 300
Webster, TX 77598
   (210) 461-7886
   info@traclabs.com
   www.traclabs.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 36
County: Harris

Public Profile

TRACLabs Inc is focused to the intergration of robotics and automation TRACLabs engineers have developed intelligent control architectures that provide robust autonomy to robotic platforms. These architectures combine reactivity with deliberation to accommodate both real-time closed-loop control and long-range planning and execution of tasks. The firm's approach emphasizes adjustable autonomy whereby a human operator can easily intervene at any level of robot operation. TRACLabs personnel have extensive experience with control of highly dynamic manipulation systems. Layered Control Architectures TRACLabs Inc. researchers invented the layered approach to controlling robotic systems. This software is called 3T because it has three interacting layers (or tiers) of control—one for low-level robot control, one for sequencing basic robot operations and one for planning robotic resource and time constraints. Sensor-To-Symbol Architectures A sensor-to-symbol architecture regularizes the connections between the sensed physical world and the symbols that represent that world. Under DARPA contract, TRACLabs Inc. is building a sensor-to-symbol architecture. The architecture can watch various sensory streams and match the outputs of simple or complex sensory algorithms onto ontological classes. Process Control TRACLabs Inc. engineers have developed advanced process control systems for NASA life support system tests over the past ten years. These tests range from a two-year integrated water recovery system test to a 90-day human test of an integrated life support system. TRACLabs Inc. software controlled test hardware via high-level, goal-directed commanding to maintain system stability and respond to faults. TRACLabs Inc. engineers have expertise in extracting domain knowledge from hardware developers and encoding that knowledge in control software. Procedure Assistance Software Intelligent, Electronic Procedures TRACLabs Inc. has been developing procedure assistance support software for over a decade. TRACLabs personnel invented the Procedure Representation Language (PRL), which is an XML schema that allows the content of a procedure to be captured for possible automated execution. TRACLabs personnel have also worked on the Procedure Integrated Development Environment (PRIDE), a procedure authoring tool being developed by NASA’s Automation for Operations (A4O) program to make developing PRL easier for flight controllers. Procedure Representation Language (PRL) PRL is an XML schema developed by TRACLabs Inc. that de?nes a variety of tags that can be used to describe a procedure. At the highest level is a procedure tag that marks the beginning of a new procedure. Each procedure consists of steps that describe smaller tasks within the procedure. Steps themselves have blocks that are containers for instructions that provide explicit detail about commanding a system. Each of these components can have automation data that controls their execution status. Operations Planning TRACLabs Inc. software engineers are developing automated planning software to assist operations planners in creating schedules that optimize time and resources. Our operations planning assistant is interactive and allows for changes in crew schedules, tool availability and time allotments. Prototypes of this planning assistant tool are being developed for ISS EVA operations and ISS PHALCON operations. The planning assistant is designed to work with the Procedure Representation Language (PRL) also developed by TRACLabs researchers. The planning problem is to determine a state sequence to achieve desired goal state(s) given an initial state(s). An automated planner is a type of general problem solver that accepts a high-level problem description and computes its solution. TRACLabs Inc. is developing automated planners for NASA and military applicatio

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
75-99
Revenue Range
7.5M-10M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
1-4

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2022 2 NASA $874,843
Project Title: Autonomous Cobots to Enhance Situational Awareness
2022 2 NASA $872,913
Project Title: ADAPtive agenT Architecture
2022 2 NASA $873,635
Project Title: Integrating ROS 2 with the Core Flight System
2022 1 NASA $149,672
Project Title: Generative Adversarial Networks for Detecting Erroneous Results
2022 1 NASA $149,931
Project Title: ROM3SA: Improved Situational Awareness for Remotely Operating Versatile Semi-Autonomous Robot Systems

Key People / Management

  David Kortenkamp -- President; Chief Executive Officer

  Barnett Ames -- Robotics Engineer

  Patrick Beeson -- Director, Robot Perception and Navigation

  Peter Bonasso -- Director, Intelligent Control

  Russell Bonasso

  Robert Burridge -- Senior Scientist

  Ernest Cross

  Jeffrey Graham -- Senior software engineer

  Stephen Hart

  Eric Huber -- Director, Computer Vision

  Karan Khokar -- Robotics Research Engineer

  Michael Lanighan

  Arthur Molin -- VP Software Development

  Ana Huaman Quispe

  Matt Robinson

  Debra L Schrechenghost -- Director, Human-System Interaction

  Debra L Schreckenghost