Mobility and industrial autonomous vehicles

Projects and Programs

Indoor Localization and Tracking

Ongoing

This web page is simply a pointer to another page that covers the extensive research program in indoor localization and tracking at NIST.

Embodied AI and Data Generation for Manufacturing Robotics

Ongoing

Approaches categorized as “artificial intelligence” (AI) are enabling significant advances in robotics. These include symbolic logic, Bayesian statistics, and

Mobility Performance of Robotic Systems

Ongoing

Mobile robots are expanding their capabilities well beyond the traditional role of Automatic/Automated/Autonomous Guided Vehicles (A-UGV) as they attain greater

Measurement Science for Manufacturing Robotics

Ongoing

To develop and deploy measurement science, standards, and test methods that advance manufacturing robotic system performance, collaboration, agility, autonomy

Publications

Performance Measurement of a Mobile Manipulator-on-a-Cart and Coordinate Registration Methods for Manufacturing Applications

April 6, 2022

Author(s)

Omar Aboul-Enein, Roger V. Bostelman, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mili Shah

Mobile manipulators, which consist of a robotic manipulator arm on a vehicular base, enable more flexible and dynamic workflows in manufacturing processes by

Experiments to Test the A-UGV Capabilities Standard

December 8, 2021

Author(s)

Soocheol Yoon, Roger V. Bostelman, Ann Virts

Automatic, Automated, or Autonomous - Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs), as referred to by ASTM International Committee F45, are industrial vehicles that have

Performance Measurement of a Mobile Manipulator-on-a-Cart and Coordinate Registration Methods for Manufacturing Applications

November 18, 2021

Author(s)

Omar Aboul-Enein, Roger V. Bostelman, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mili Shah

Mobile manipulators, which consist of a robotic manipulator arm on a vehicular base, enable more flexible and dynamic workflows in manufacturing processes by

Linking Performance Data and Geospatial Information of Manufacturing Assets through Standard Representations

August 16, 2020

Author(s)

Aaron Hanke, Teodor Vernica, William Z. Bernstein

Interoperability across emerging visualization modalities, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), remains a challenge with respect to

Awards

Roger Bostelman receives 2018 ASTM Presidents Leadership Award

Roger Bostelman Receives the 2018 ASTM International James A. Thomas President’s Leadership Award

Roger Bostelman, a project manager in the Engineering Laboratory's Intelligent Systems Division at NIST, was recently awarded the 2018 ASTM