  Astronomers have been measuring the separations and position angles between
the two components of binary stars since William Herschel began his
observations in 1781. In 1970, Anton Labeyrie pioneered a method, speckle
interferometry, that overcomes the usual resolution limits induced by
atmospheric turbulence by taking hundreds or thousands of short exposures and
reducing them in Fourier space. Our 2022 automation of speckle interferometry
allowed us to use a fully robotic 1.0-meter PlaneWave Instruments telescope,
located at the El Sauce Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile, to obtain
observations of many known binaries with established orbits. The long-term
objective of these observations is to establish the precision, accuracy, and
limitations of this telescope's automated speckle interferometry measurements.
This paper provides an early overview of the Known Binaries Project and provide
example results on a small-separation (0.27") binary, WDS 12274-2843 B 228.
