The integration of machine learning with automated experimentation in self-driving laboratories is aimed at accelerating discovery and optimization tasks in science and engineering applications.
A distributed self-driving laboratory (SDL) implementation has been developed on nanoHUB services for online simulation and FAIR data management to facilitate collaboration among geographically dispersed researchers.
Collaborators can contribute raw experimental data to a shared central database, benefiting from analysis tools and machine learning models that dynamically update as new data is added.
The approach enables sequential optimization through active learning, demonstrated in an example of finding the optimal recipe to combine food dyes for achieving a specific color target using readily available materials.