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Laboratory automation
has become increasingly prevalent in biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical
companies, allowing for thousands of experiments to be carried out weekly. In smaller
scale research laboratories, the initial cost and learning curve to operating new
machinery is often too steep to be of practical value. In this work, a novel method for
protocol generation on the Opentrons ... read morelaboratory robotics platform solely using verbal
instruction was developed. Through the classification of the instructions groups using
machine learning, the system is able to apply specific parsing methods that take
advantage of unique characteristics that are typical of a given class of instructions.
Analysis of the instructional phrases using natural language processing techniques
yielded accurate and reliable code generation, even with varying sentence structures.
This speech processing pipeline extends the usability of the Opentrons robotics platform
to those with limited programming experience and makes the performance of common
laboratory tasks more accessible.
Thesis
(M.S.)--Tufts University, 2019.
Submitted to the
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering.
Advisor: David
Kaplan.
Committee: Soha Hassoun, and Madeleine
Oudin.
Keywords: Biomedical engineering, and
Computer science.read less
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