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Dinesh Atreya from Texas A&M writes:
 
>We (Texas A&M University Robotics group) are interested in
>finding information about vendors supplying Instrumented
>RCC's. These are regular RCC's (Remote Compliance Centers)
>which provide a facility of reading the deflections in the
>RCC to compute the kinematic transformations of the
>end effector.
>
>In case anybody has any information about such (similar)
>devices, please post on net or send an email to
>                   Dinesh S. Atreya
>          email address: dinesh@cs.tamu.edu
>
>THANK YOU
>
>dinesh
 
The only place I heard of building IRCCs (instrumented RCC) was Draper Labs
up in MASS. in MIT country (near MIT).  Draper does not sell their IRCC
commercially but you still might be able to get one.  I do not know of anyone
who commercially sells IRCCs.  Some people have used a force/torque sensor
combined with a regular RCC successfully.  The advantage to using a IRCC is
that the shear pad performance can measured over time and the geometry is
better (lower stack height).  My guess is that an F/T sensor would have
better resolution and of course, the f/t sensor could be used for other
applications.
 
--Taylor Corey (formerly w/Lord Corp)