METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE FULL AUTOMATION OF A LABORATORY PERFORMING ANALYSES

摘要

A method for the full automation of a laboratory performing analyses wherein a set of elementary operations is established, each performed by a generally known device, and some suitable sequences of said elementary operations are selected so as to perform the requested preparation cycles and analyses of the tested samples, using an apparatus built by assembling, according to particular rules, a suitable selection of said devices (18, 19) and subsidiary complementary devices (16), all of them interacting with at least one robot (14), under control of a computer, managed by a suitable program, to which said devices and subsidiary devices are connected through suitable interfaces.