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Engineering Laboratory /Intelligent Systems Division

Cognition and Collaboration Systems Group

The Cognition and Collaboration Systems group develops, advances, and deploys measurement science in knowledge representation, reasoning, and planning for intelligent systems used in manufacturing and construction applications. The group also carries out mission-related measurement science research and services to advance human interactions with intelligent machines, ranging from teleoperation and shared autonomy to fully autonomous behaviors

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Projects and Programs

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Agility Performance of Robotic Systems

Ongoing
Objective Deliver robot agility performance metrics, test methods, information models, datasets, combined virtual/real testbeds, and planning approaches that will enable manufacturers to more easily and rapidly reconfigure, retask, and redeploy robotic systems. Technical Idea The project is...
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Measurement Science for Automated Vehicles

Ongoing
Objective Develop measurement science for evaluating AI-based decision-making systems in automated vehicles. Technical Idea This project produces measurement methods, reference baselines, test tools, and scenario datasets that solve the measurement gap described above. Current evaluation methods...
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NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Ongoing
Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs), which have great potential to significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. A FY22 NIST Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives...
Physical AI and Data Generation for Robotic

Physical AI and Data Generation for Robotics

Ongoing
Objective Develop metrics, test methods, standards, software, prototypes, and datasets to promote the adoption of AI-enhanced robotics. Technical Idea To address this problem, manufacturers and integrators need a streamlined way of assessing the productive impact of AI systems. To address the first...

Publications

Incremental Learning for Robot Shared Autonomy

Author(s)
Yiran Tao, Guixiu Qiao, Dan Ding, Zackory Erickson
Shared autonomy holds promise for improving the usability and accessibility of assistive robotic arms, but current methods often rely on costly expert...

Geometric Red-Teaming for Robotic Manipulation

Author(s)
Divyam Goel, Yufei Wang, Tiancheng Wu, Guixiu Qiao, Pavlo Piliptchak, David Held, Zackory Erickson
Standard evaluation protocols in robotic manipulation typically assess policy performance over curated, in-distribution test sets, offering limited insight into...

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