Closed-loop and Autonomous: CMU Cloud Lab for Measuring Hansen Solubility Parameters
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Talk at Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Autonomous labs can be a tranformative tool for the future of research to accelerate scientific discovery, but they are capital intensive and require a high level of expertise to design and operate. In this talk, I introduced our approach to use the CMU cloud lab as a proxy for designing autonomous workflows. Specifically, we demonstrated how the cloud lab can be used to measure the Hansen solubility parameters of a series of polymers in a closed-loop and autonomous fashion. Everything, including the design and selection of experiments, the execution of the experiments, and the analysis of the experiment findings, is done autonomously with no human intervention, except the neccessary human involvement in the cloud lab facility.