In 1990, the Department of Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of California, Davis, established an Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) and Mechatronics Laboratory. Among its research efforts, the lab has pursued a series of projects dedicated to further development of CNC technology. From 1996 to 1999, its TRUE-CNC project focused on machine infrastructure for planning, analysis, machine control and monitoring. VIVID-CNC, from 1999 to 2002, emphasized autonomously intelligent application technology. In 2002, the lab began its 0MNI-CNC project, a 5-year effort intended to create an integrated CNC system for the future. The system will consist of three parts: the human/machine interface, a high-performance CNC core and a versatile motion/logic control engine. The acronym OMNI stands for Operability, Multiview, Nifty intelligence and Informative data provision.
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