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Dagalakis, N.G., Albus, J.S., Goodwin, K.R., Lee, J.D. Tsai, T.M., et. al., "Robot Crane Technology (Final Report)," NISTTN 1267, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, July 1989.

Bostelman, R.V., "Description of a Vibration Compensation System for the Small Scale Model Robot Crane Project," NISTIR 4595, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, July 1991.

Albus, J.S., Bostelman, R.V., Dagalakis, N., "The NIST ROBOCRANE," Journal of Robotics System, Vol. 10, No. 5, pgs 709-724, Received March 3, 1992, accepted September 8, 1992.

Dagalakis, N.G., Albus, J.S., Bostelman, R.V., Fiala, J., "Development of the NIST Robot Crane Teleoperation Controller," Proceedings of the 5th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, Knoxville, TN, April 25-30, 1993.

Bostelman, R.V., Albus, J.S., "Stability of an Underwater Work Platform Suspended from an Unstable Reference," Proceedings of the Oceans '93 Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, October 20, 1993.

Bostelman, R., Albus, J., Murphy, K., Tsai, T., Amatucci, E., "A Stewart Platform Lunar Rover," Proceedings of the Space '94 Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 28 - March 3, 1994.

Bostelman, R., Albus, J., Dagalakis, N., Jacoff, A., Gross, J., "Applications of the NIST RoboCrane," Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing, Maui, HI, August 14-18, 1994.

Bostelman, R., Albus, J., Dagalakis, N., Jacoff, A., "RoboCrane Project: An Advanced Concept for Large Scale Manufacturing," Proceedings of the AUVSI Conference, Orlando, FL, July 1996.

Bostelman, R., Jacoff, A., Dagalakis, N., Albus, J., "RCS-Based RoboCrane Integration," Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems: A Semiotic Perspective, Gaithersburg, MD, October 20-23, 1996.

Bostelman, R.V., Albus, J.S., Graham, R.E., "RoboCrane and EMMA Applied to Waste Storage Tank Remediation," Proceedings of the American Nucelar Society Seventh Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, Augusta, GA, April 27 - May 1, 1997.

Goodwin, K., "RoboCrane Construction of Bridges," Transportation Research Board - NRC, January 12, 1997.

Amatucci, E., Bostelman, R., Dagalakis, N., Tsai, T., "Summary of Modeling and Simulation for NIST RoboCrane Applications," Proceedings of the 1997 Deneb International Simulation Conference and Technology Showcase, Detroit, MI, September 29 - October 3, 1997.

Dagalakis, N., "Remote Graphic Programming and Monitoring Tools of the NIST RoboCrane Controller," Proceedings of the 1997 Deneb International Simulation Conference & Technology Showcase, Auburn Hills, MI, September 29 - October 3, 1997.

Goodwin, K., Bostelman, R., "Cargo Container Transfer Requirements for the Mobile Offshore Base, "NISTIR 6158, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, April 1998.

Bostelman, R., Jacoff, A., Bunch. R., "Delivery of an Advanced Double-Hull Ship Welding System using RoboCrane," Proceedings of the Third International ICSC Symposia on Intelligent Industrial Automation and Soft Computing, Genova, Italy, June 1-4, 1999.

Bostelman, R., Jacoff, A., Albus, J.S., " Phase II Final Report: Air Transportable Expeditionary Crane (ATEC) Project," NISTIR 6186, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, June 1998.

Wavering, A.J., "Parallel Kinematic Machine Research at NIST: Past, Present, and Future," First European-American Forum on Parallel Kinematic Machines Theoretical Aspects & Industrial Requirements, Milan, Italy, August 31 - September 1, 1998.

Bostelman, R.V., Goodwin, K., "Survey of Cargo Handling Research Relative to the Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) Needs," NISTIR 6306, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, March 1999.

Bostelman, R., Jacoff, A., Proctor, F., Kramer, T., Wavering, A., "Cable-Based Reconfigurable Machines for Large Scale Manufacturing," Proceedings of the 2000 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation-Intern'l Conf. on New Technological Innovation for the 21st Century, Ann Arbor, MI, 7/23-26/2000.

For more information about RoboCrane, please contact the project manager, roger.bostelman [at] nist.gov (Roger Bostelman)

Created July 28, 2011, Updated January 5, 2017