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MEMS Measurement Science and Standards
Last Updated Date: 05/09/2013 Our goal is to provide technical leadership in R&D for the MEMS measurement infrastructure essential to improving U.S. economic … more
Department of Homeland Security Urban Search and Rescue Robot Performance Standards
Last Updated Date: 05/02/2013 FEMA Responders often face daunting challenges during search and rescue tasks in dangerous environments. As such, the concept of including robots … more
Dexterous Manipulation for Part Grasping and Assembly
Last Updated Date: 04/04/2013 This project will investigate new measurement science to gauge the operational characteristics of manipulation at both the macro and micro … more
Safety of Human-Robot Systems in Flexible Factory Environments
Last Updated Date: 01/11/2013 Industry is interested in leveraging the dexterity and versatility of people and the precision and repeatability of robots by enabling … more
Robot Perception for Identifying and Locating Parts for Assembly
Last Updated Date: 01/11/2013 Perception systems underpin many advanced, autonomous, industrial-robot capabilities. These advanced capabilities include manipulation … more
Mobile Autonomous Vehicle Obstacle Detection and Avoidance
Last Updated Date: 01/11/2013 Mobile equipment is heavily used in manufacturing. There is a growing acceptance of either partially or fully autonomous equipment in the … more
Knowledge Driven Planning and Modeling
Last Updated Date: 01/11/2013 This project will aid in the development of measurement science and standards to enable advancements in planning by robots in scenarios relevant to … more
Robot Perception for Workspace Situational Awareness
Last Updated Date: 01/11/2013 Next generation robotic systems are expected to perform highly complex tasks in dynamic manufacturing environments. To be successful in … more
Safety of Human-Robot Systems in Fixed Workcell Environments
Last Updated Date: 01/10/2013 Safe human-robot collaboration in manufacturing work cells is widely seen as key to the future of robotics. When humans and robots share the same … more
Next-Generation Robotics and Automation Program
Last Updated Date: 01/10/2013 The objective of the Next-Generation Robotics and Automation Program is to develop and deploy advances in measurement science to safely increase … more
Micro- and Nano-Manipulation for Manufacturing Applications
Last Updated Date: 01/10/2013 Manipulation at the micro and nano levels requires different strategies than at the macro scale and also the development of related sensing and … more
Federal Highway Administration Exploratory Advanced Research Program
Last Updated Date: 09/05/2012 Leverage NIST knowledge and capabilities in task analysis, perception, autonomous vehicle systems, and performance measurements to support an FWHA … more
Army Research Laboratory Perception/ Performance Evaluation Project
Last Updated Date: 09/05/2012 The detection, classification, and tracking of moving vehicles and people from an unmanned vehicle maneuvering at speeds of up to 80 kph remain a … more
RoboCrane
Last Updated Date: 08/30/2012 (Concluded) The RoboCrane design utilizes the basic idea of the Stewart Platform parallel link manipulator. The unique feature of the NIST … more
Implement Robotic Mass Measurements in SP250 Services
Last Updated Date: 05/30/2012 This project will develop and implement the procedures required to have fully automated/robotic mass measurement services in the range from 1 mg … more |
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