Robotics Manipulator Lab (RML) is a multi-user lab intended to assist robotics researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park. The lab space and equipment is available at for all Maryland Robotics Canter faculty and their students at no charge. Users Currently, the lab is limited to users who are members of the Maryland Robotics Center (or researches closely affiliated with a faculty member in the center). Getting access In order to provide safe, accessible access to RML, you need to go through a lab orientation and get qualified on equipment that you plan to use. Lab orientation: email the lab manager (Ivan Penskiy, ipenskiy[at]umd[dot]edu) to schedule the orientation. Each session should only take about half an hour and will cover the lab overview as well as general safety information. Equipment training: once you have gone through the orientation, you may get trained and qualified on equipment that you plan to use. Read through the appropriate SOPs and manuals and contact the lab manager to schedule your training. Scheduling RML uses Google calendars for reserving the equipment and lab space. Users get permission to reserve equipment after being trained on it. All equipment has to be reserved in advance and the changes in plans (extension, cancelation, etc) have to be reflected in the calendar. Repeated disregard and abuse of the scheduling system will lead to removal of the access privileges. Scheduling page has a list of all calendars to the equipment in RML. Safety This lab contains equipment that can hurt you so be careful! Everybody must follow the lab's safety rules. Etiquette A couple points of etiquette will make this a much happier place for all members. Repeated violation of these will lead to removal of the user's access to RML. No food or drinks Do not touch things that aren't yours or equipment that you are not trained on. Clean up after yourself. Showing up to use equipment that has been left in a state of disaster is no fun to anyone and can damage the equipment. Cell phone usage. Use your best judgement here. If you are the only person in the lab (okay for some equipment, but not generally recommended), feel free to talk as much as you'd like as long as it does not distract from using the equipment. If others are in the lab, please make sure that you are not bothering them by using the phone.