Presidential Young Investigators Award
{'Code': '07030000', 'Directorate': {'LongName': 'Directorate For Engineering'}, 'Division': {'LongName': 'Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn'}}
{'SignBlockName': 'Ken Chong'}
The research will involve the analysis and design of high                       accuracy mechanical systems.  Such systems include machines to                  perform finishing tasks on construction sites such as:                          1)  Wallbots, robots to assemble steel track and stud walls; and                2)  Scaffbot, robot to perform maintenance and assembly tasks on                vertical exterior surfaces of ships and building.  Also                         included are machines to advance the state of the art of                        precision surveying and navigation, such as:  1) Acall, a machine               to calibrate accelerometers, for the National Bureau of                         Standards, to achieve accuracies of one part per million.  This                 type of accuracy is needed to allow slow moving vehicles to use                 inertial systems to navigate for extended periods of time.                      2)  Molecular Measuring Machine, a machine being designed with                  the National Bureau of Standards with the capability to measure                 the position of atoms on specimens centimeters in diameter.
{'FirstName': 'Alexander', 'LastName': 'Slocum', 'EmailAddress': 'slocum@mit.edu', 'StartDate': '11/29/1993', 'EndDate': None, 'RoleCode': 'Principal Investigator'}
{'Name': 'Massachusetts Institute of Technology', 'CityName': 'Cambridge', 'ZipCode': '021394301', 'PhoneNumber': '6172531000', 'StreetAddress': '77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'StateName': 'Massachusetts', 'StateCode': 'MA'}
{'Code': '1442', 'Text': 'CONSTRUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTUR'}
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