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11. USARSim/ROS: A Combined Framework for Robotic Control and Simulation
Topic: Robotics
Published: 6/20/2012
Authors: Stephen B. Balakirsky, Zeid Kootbally
Abstract: The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been steadily gaining popularity among robotics researchers as an open source framework for robot control. The Unified System for Automation and Robot Simulation (USARSim) has been used for many years by robotics ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910918

12. Using Competitions to Advance the Development of Standard Test Methods for Response Robots
Topic: Robotics
Published: 5/17/2012
Authors: Adam S Jacoff, Raymond K. Sheh, Ann M Virts, Tetsuya Kimura, Johannes Pellenz, Soren Schwertfeger, Jackrit Suthakorn
Abstract: Competitions are an effective aid to the development and dissemination of standard test methods, especially in rapidly developing, highly varied fields such as Urban Search and Rescue robotics. By exposing the development process to highly developmen ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910662

13. Integrating Occlusion Monitoring into Human Tracking for Robot Speed and Separation Monitoring
Topic: Robotics
Published: 5/16/2012
Authors: William P Shackleford, Sandor S. Szabo, Richard J Norcross, Jeremy A Marvel
Abstract: Collaborative robots work in close proximity to humans to perform a variety of tasks, while more traditional industrial robots need to be shut down whenever a human enters its work-volume. Instead of relying on physical barriers or merely detecting ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910656

14. Emergency Response Robot Evaluation Exercise
Topic: Robotics
Published: 3/22/2012
Authors: Adam S Jacoff, Hui-Min Huang, Ann M Virts, Anthony J Downs, Raymond K. Sheh
Abstract: More than 60 robot test methods are being developed by a team lead by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with the sponsorship of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These test methods are being specified and standardiz ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910947

15. Functional Requirements of a Model for Kitting Plans
Topic: Robotics
Published: 3/22/2012
Authors: Stephen B. Balakirsky, Zeid Kootbally, Thomas Rollin Kramer, Rajmohan Madhavan, Craig I Schlenoff, Michael O Shneier
Abstract: Industrial assembly of manufactured products is often performed by first bringing parts together in a kit and then moving the kit to the assembly area where the parts are used to assemble products. Kitting, the process of building kits, has not yet b ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910875

16. Performance Evaluation of Robotic Knowledge Representation (PERK)
Topic: Robotics
Published: 3/22/2012
Authors: Craig I Schlenoff, Sebti Foufou, Stephen B. Balakirsky
Abstract: In this paper, we explore some ways in which symbolic knowledge representations have been evaluated in the past and provide some thoughts on what should be considered when applying and evaluating these types of knowledge representations for real-time ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=910808

17. Survey of Industrial Manipulation Technologies for Autonomous Assembly Applications
Series: NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
Report Number: 7844
Topic: Robotics
Published: 3/16/2012
Authors: Roger V Bostelman, Joseph A Falco
Abstract: The need for agile manufacturing is moving the manufacturing industry towards more flexible and complex assembly operations involving, for example: - multiple manipulators providing flexible part manipulation and fixturing; - assembling parts whil ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=908608

18. Contests in China Put Next-Gen Robot Technologies to the Test
Topic: Robotics
Published: 9/13/2011
Authors: Michael E Newman, Stephen B. Balakirsky
Abstract: This article describes the 2011 Robot Challenge that took place at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shanghai, China. The quartet of contests-the Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition (VMAC), the Mobile Microrobotics C ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=908812

19. Large-Area Overhead Manipulator for Access of Fields
Topic: Robotics
Published: 7/22/2011
Authors: Jeffrey W White, Roger V Bostelman
Abstract: Multi-axis, cable-driven manipulators have evolved over many years providing large area suspended platform access, programmability, relatively rigid and flexibly- positioned platform control and full six degree of freedom (DOF) manipulation of sensor ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=905268

20. 2010 Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'10) Workshop
Series: Special Publication (NIST SP)
Report Number: 1113
Topic: Robotics
Published: 2/8/2011
Authors: Rajmohan Madhavan, Elena R Messina, Brian A Weiss
Abstract: The 2010 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop is the tenth in a series dedicated to defining measures and methodologies of evaluating performance of intelligent systems. Started in 2000, the PerMIS series focuses on applications of pe ...
http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=907548