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NASA Langley Details its Use of KollabNet in its Robotics and Machine Intelligence Lab

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In a brief case-study paper, accompanied by a video interview with NASA engineer Sam Miller, the application of KollabNet to robotic platform research and design is detailed. NASA Langley has been employing KollabNet for several months and reports on its progress, as well as its hopes for future application of the tool.

Says Miller: "The [robot] platform is designed as a mobile technology-demonstration platform for all the sensors above, with the RSC eventually forming the data-processing core of the robot.

"We are looking to KollabNet to help us capture and manage the knowledge we generate in all stages of the product design, particularly the very early stages - where ideas are transitory and short-lived, but nevertheless have great impact on the project's overall trajectory.”

Miller sees the potential to apply KollabNet to many other NASA projects. "I can't envision managing complex and critical projects without a tool like KollabNet," he said.

The case study can be found at http://www.kollabnet.com/NASA files/nasacasestudy.htm. (To see the video interview, please view it with Internet Explorer.)

This is the first of a new series of KollabNet case studies.

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KollabNet, Inc., is all about increasing manufacturer profitability. We produce enterprise-level software for design knowledge capture, requirements capture, impact analysis, and rationale capture. Working with leading large and mid-size manufacturers, KollabNet automates portions of their design engineering process never before addressed by software. For a demo and more information, please visit www.kollabnet.com, or call 717-560-9580.

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This release can also be found at http://www.kollabnet.com/News/pr 09-27-2005.htm