Contractor directory

TRACLABS INC.

SAN ANTONIO, TX · UEI CEL6Q7QSVHA7 · CAGE 37ZK6

Largest contract awards

• 80NSSC21C0593$3.3M

  ADVANCED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SPACE ROBOTICS

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541715 · Jun 2021 – Dec 2024 · official record ↗

• N6426725C7200$1.5M

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  Department of the Navy · NAICS 541715 · Sep 2025 – Sep 2027 · official record ↗

• 1333ND20PNB670731$1.5M

  SBIR PHASE III FOR AUGMENTED REALITY

  National Institute of Standards and Technology · NAICS 541512 · Sep 2020 – Dec 2023 · official record ↗

• NNX17CA02C$1.1M

  IGF::OT::IGF SPACECRAFT AUTOMATION CAN BE USED TO GREATLY REDUCE THE DEMANDS ON CREW MEMBER AND FLIGHT CONTROLLERS TIME AND ATTENTION. AUTOMATION CAN MONITOR CRITICAL RESOURCES, PERFORM ROUTINE TASKS, RESPOND TO UNEXPECTED EVENTS, AND MANAGE THE OVERALL OPERATION OF ON-BOARD SYSTEMS. CREW MEMBERS AND FLIGHT CONTROLLERS ALSO USE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES TO MANAGE THE TASKS NECESSARY TO OPERATE COMPLEX SPACE MISSIONS. THESE PROCEDURES DOCUMENT BOTH MANUAL, NON-AUTOMATABLE TASKS AND THE INTERACTION WITH AUTOMATED SPACE SYSTEMS. IN CURRENT NASA OPERATIONS, HOWEVER, AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES ARE COMPLETELY DIVORCED FROM EACH OTHER. THUS, PROCEDURES CANNOT START AUTOMATION PROCESSES, MONITOR AUTOMATION SYSTEMS, OR RESPOND TO STATE CHANGES IN AUTOMATED SYSTEMS. TRACLABS HAS DEVELOPED AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR ELECTRONIC PROCEDURES CALLED PRIDE. OUR SUBCONTRACTOR, THE HAMMERS COMPANY, HAS DEVELOPED AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM CALLED GALAXY AND ITS SPACECRAFT TEST AND OPERATIONS LANGUAGE (STOL) INTERPRETER. IN PHASE I OF THIS RESEARCH, TRACLABS AND THE HAMMERS COMPANY INTEGRATED PRIDE WITH GALAXY AS A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT EXAMPLE OF THE CAPABILITIES PROVIDED BY A LINK BETWEEN STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS. PHASE II OF THIS RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON A MUCH TIGHTER INTERACTION BETWEEN PRIDE AND GALAXY AND APPLICATION TO NASA?S RESOURCE PROSPECTOR MISSION.

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541712 · Apr 2017 – Jan 2021 · official record ↗

• 80NSSC24CA028$850K

  MULTI-AGENT ANOMALY RESOLUTION SYSTEM (MAARS) - STTR II

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541715 · Dec 2023 – Dec 2025 · official record ↗

• 80NSSC18C0145$750K

  OVER PREVIOUS PHASE I, II, AND III NASA SBIR PROJECTS, TRACLABS HAS CREATED A SOFTWARE TOOLKIT FOR PROGRAMMING AND CONTROLLING HUMANOID ROBOTS AND OTHER MOBILE MANIPULATORS. THIS OPEN-SOURCE TOOLKIT, CALLED THE CARTESIAN-BASED AFFORDANCE TEMPLATE SUITE FOR MANIPULATION (OR CRAFTSMAN), INCORPORATES STATE-OF-THE-ART MOTION GENERATION TECHNIQUES ALONG WITH PRINCIPLES OF USER INTERFACE DESIGN AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TO FILL A GAP IN THE ROBOTICS RESEARCH COMMUNITY FOR ADVANCED SENSOR-DRIVEN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT. WHILE THIS TOOLKIT WAS INITIALLY SUPPORTED BY NASA, FURTHER SUPPORT FROM A LARGE-SCALE AUTOMOTIVE CLIENT AND ROBOTICS MANUFACTURERS HAS ALLOWED TRACLABS TO MATURE THE CODE-BASE FOR ITS DEPLOYMENT IN INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL CONTEXTS. DESPITE THIS COMMERCIALIZATION SUCCESS, THE CAPABILITIES OF CRAFTSMAN MOTION CONTROL HAVE MAINLY BEEN FOCUSED ON A SMALL SET OF ROBOT-INDEPENDENT TRAJECTORY GENERATION ALGORITHMS, AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE SYSTEM HAS BEEN LIMITED TO CLASSES OF MANIPULATION TASKS WHERE GOALS CAN BE REPRESENTED AS SPATIAL WAYPOINTS FOR THE ROBOT S END EFFECTORS OR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS. IT IS THE GOAL OF THIS WORK TO REFACTOR CRAFTSMAN INTO A MORE GENERAL PLUGIN-BASED CONTROL FRAMEWORK THAT SUPPORTS TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCED MOTION PLANNING, REACTIVE CONTROL, AND AUTOMOUS STANCE LOCATION. WE ARGUE THAT THIS REFACTOR WOULD BE BENEFICIAL BY PROVIDING A COMMON APPLICATION PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK THAT CAN BE USED ON MULTIPLE SYSTEMS IN A VARIETY OF ENVIRONMENTS, AND WHERE NEW FUNCTIONALITY CAN QUICKLY BE INTEGRATED TO FACILITATE A NUMBER OF NASA-RELEVANT MISSIONS. WE CALL THIS NEXT GENERATION OF OUT TOOLKIT

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541715 · Apr 2018 – Oct 2020 · official record ↗

• 80NSSC21C0622$750K

  MULTI-AGENT PLANNING AND CONTROL FOR AUTONOMOUS ON-ORBIT SERVICING, ASSEMBLY, AND MANUFACTURING

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541715 · Sep 2021 – Sep 2023 · official record ↗

• 80NSSC22CA253$750K

  EO14042 SBIR PHASE II AUTONOMOUS COBOTS TO ENHANCE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541715 · Sep 2022 – Mar 2025 · official record ↗

• 80NSSC21C0493$750K

  IN DIRECT RESPONSE TO NASAS NEED FOR PERCEPTION SYSTEMS FOR INTERIOR ENVIRONMENT MONITORING, MODELING AND NAVIGATION AND FOR OPERATIONAL SUBSYSTEMS THAT INCREASE ROBOT AUTONOMY

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541715 · Aug 2021 – Jul 2024 · official record ↗

• FA857120C0029$750K

  INTELLIGENT ROBOT PATH PLANNING SYSTEM FOR GRINDING OF AIRCRAFT PROPELLER BLADES

  Department of the Air Force · NAICS 339999 · May 2020 – May 2022 · official record ↗

• NNX17CJ03C$750K

  IGF::OT::IGF CURRENT NASA MISSIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) ARE HEAVILY DEPENDENT UPON GROUND CONTROLLERS TO ASSIST CREW MEMBERS IN PERFORMING ROUTINE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE AS WELL AS RESPONSES TO OFF-NOMINAL SITUATIONS. PERFORMING THESE PROCEDURES OFTEN REQUIRES CLOSE COLLABORATION BETWEEN GROUND CONTROLLERS WHO HAVE DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPACECRAFT'S SYSTEMS. THIS COLLABORATION BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT IN EXTENDED MISSIONS AND CREW MEMBERS WILL NEED TO HAVE MORE AUTONOMY. AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP REPLACE SOME OF THE GUIDANCE THAT GROUND CONTROLLERS OFFER TO CREW MEMBERS DURING PROCEDURE EXECUTION. OUR PROPOSED APPROACH FOCUSES ON INTEGRATING AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGIES INTO THE SAME TOOLS THAT MISSION OPERATIONS USES TODAY, ALLOWING FOR AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY ASSISTANCE TO BE BUILT AND UPDATED BY FLIGHT CONTROLLERS AND OTHER MISSION SPECIALISTS JUST AS THEY DO FOR THEIR OTHER WORK PRODUCTS. IN PHASE I, TRACLABS INTEGRATED ITS PRIDE ELECTRONIC PROCEDURE PLATFORM WITH AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEMS SUCH AS THE HTC VIVE. IN PHASE II WE WILL EXTEND THE PRIDE PLATFORM TO AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICES SUCH AS THE MICROSOFT HOLOLENS. TRACLABS IS ALSO PARTNERED WITH THE GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY'S AUGMENTED ENVIRONMENTS LABORATORY WHO WILL DEVELOP ALGORITHMS THAT DYNAMICALLY ADJUST THE AUGMENTED REALITY CUES (BOTH THEIR POSITION, ORIENTATION, AND SCALE, ALONG WITH THE SPECIFIC GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS USED) SUCH THAT THEY ALIGN WITH THE NECESSARY PARTS OF THE WORLD WITHOUT OBSCURING IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE WORLD.

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541712 · Apr 2017 – Jun 2021 · official record ↗

• 80NSSC19C0216$749K

  ROBOTS WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN NASA'S UPCOMING MISSIONS TO THE MOON AND BEYOND. THEY WILL NEED TO MANIPULATE THEIR ENVIRONMENT IN COMPLEX AND USEFUL WAYS - CARRYING OBJECTS, USING TOOLS, AND ASSISTING CREW. NASA S HUMANOID ROBOTS HAVE HIGHLY DEXTEROUS END-EFFECTORS, BUT DEVELOPING SOFTWARE TO FULLY UTILIZE SUCH HANDS REMAINS A CHALLENGING TASK. GRASPING STRATEGIES ARE HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON OBJECT MODELS AND LOCALIZATION. ENVIRONMENTAL OBSTACLES OR THE OBJECT'S INTENDED USE CAN STRONGLY INFLUENCE HOW BEST TO GRASP IT. PREVIOUSLY WITH NASA, TRACLABS DEVELOPED CRAFTSMAN, WHICH SUPPORTS ROBOT-INDEPENDENT TASK DESCRIPTIONS, ALTHOUGH GRASP STRATEGIES ARE ROBOT-SPECIFIC. HERE, WE EXTEND CRAFTSMAN TO HANDLE GRASPING AS A TASK-INFORMED BEHAVIOR. THIS NEW SYSTEM, CALLED ADAMANT, WILL CONNECT TO OTHER CRAFTSMAN SOFTWARE NODES TO HELP FIND THE BEST OPTION FOR ACQUIRING AN OBJECT. THE RESULT WILL BE A ROBOT GRASPING INTERFACE THAT PRODUCES MORE ROBUST ROBOT BEHAVIORS WHILE REDUCING THE COGNITIVE LOAD ON REMOTE ROBOT OPERATORS. THE ADAMANT SYSTEM USES SENSOR AND/OR MODEL DATA IN ADDITION TO A TASK DESCRIPTION TO DEVELOP A RANKED LIST OF POTENTIAL GRASPS FOR AN OBJECT, USING USER-SELECTED GRASP METRICS. THESE DIFFERENT GRASPS ARE EXPLORED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COMPLETE TASK TO ARRIVE AT THE STRATEGY MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED. IN PHASE I, WE DEMONSTRATED THAT WE COULD DESCRIBE TASKS IN TERMS OF THE EFFECT ON THE OBJECT, RATHER THAN JUST A SEQUENCE OF WAYPOINTS FOR A MANIPULATOR AND GRIPPER. IN PHASE II, WE WILL FULLY INCORPORATE THIS OBJECT-CENTRIC IDEA INTO CRAFTSMAN, ALLOWING THE USER TO DEFINE TASKS WITHOUT A SPECIFIC MANIPULATOR/GRIPPER IN MIND. THE ADAMANT SYSTEM WILL AUTOMATICALLY FIGURE OUT AT RUN-TIME THE BEST WAY TO GRASP AN OBJECT GIVEN MODELS OF THE HAND AND MODELS (OR SENSOR DATA) OF THE OBJECT. THIS WORK WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR NASA TO USE ROBOTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH PRE-EXISTING OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES, AND HAS MANY APPLICATIONS TO INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS.

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration · NAICS 541715 · Aug 2019 – Feb 2022 · official record ↗

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