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Omar Aboul-Enein poses next to a silver and blue robotic arm in a lab setting.

Spotlight: Mobile Robots Traversing the Factory Floor

October 25, 2022

In manufacturing plants, robotic arms are typically fastened down in one spot, repeating a single task over and over. While stationary machines are already

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.

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

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

Publications

Design and Implementation of a Closed-Loop Mobile Manipulator Control System

July 28, 2023

Author(s)

Omar Aboul-Enein, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Roger Bostelman, Ann Virts

Mobile manipulators, which integrate a robotic manipulator with an automatic--autonomous mobile base, have the potential to augment automation by combining the

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

INFORMATION MODEL FOR A-UGV PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT STANDARD

November 19, 2020

Author(s)

Soocheol Yoon, Roger V. Bostelman

Automatic through autonomous - Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs) have the potential to be applied over a wide range of manufacturing systems under industry 4.0

Optical and Mechanical Design of a Telescope for Lunar Spectral Irradiance Measurements from a High-Altitude Aircraft

September 8, 2020

Author(s)

Clarence Zarobila, Steven Grantham, Steven W. Brown, John T. Woodward IV, Stephen Maxwell, Dana R. Defibaugh, Thomas C. Larason, Kevin Turpie

We have designed a non-imaging telescope for measurement of the spectral irradiance of the moon. The telescope was integrated into a wing pod of a NASA ER-2