A Programmable Optics Cloud Laboratory

📅 2026-09-14
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为解决实验室光学实验难以重新配置的问题,研究提出了一种可编程的云实验室架构PICO,通过统一的软件层来控制实验配置和操作。
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Laboratory automation can improve experimental throughput, accessibility, and reproducibility, but many robotic laboratory systems remain difficult to reconfigure. This challenge is especially pronounced in free-space optics, where experiments are built from heterogeneous components, require precise alignment, and are frequently rearranged as experimental goals change. In this work, we present the Programmable Infrastructure for Cloud Optics (PICO), a robotic cloud-laboratory architecture designed to make reconfigurable optical experiments easier to program, operate, and reproduce. PICO provides a common domain-specific abstraction and software layer through which experimental configurations and actions can be controlled across different user interfaces. This enables the same physical laboratory to support remote interactive use, scripted experiments, autonomous routines, and features such as version control. We implement PICO on a robotic free-space optics platform and demonstrate it through an experimental case study.
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laboratory automation
reconfigurable optical experiments
free-space optics
experimental throughput
reproducibility
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Programmable Infrastructure for Cloud Optics
reconfigurable optical experiments
domain-specific abstraction
software layer
remote interactive use
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