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Book Chapters

Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition: Task Pool

Author(s)
Yu Sun, Joseph Falco, Nadia Cheng, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Erik Engeberg, Nancy Pollard, Maximo Roa, Zeyang Xia
A Robot Grasping and Manipulation Competition was held during IROS 2016. The competition provided a common set of robot tasks for researchers focused on the

State-of-the-Art in Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s)
Jeremy Marvel, Megan Zimmerman, Shelly Bagchi
In this chapter, we will discuss the applications of HRI and HMI in industrial robotics, and will discuss topics such as collaborative robot safety, advances in

Optics Contamination

Author(s)
Charles S. Tarrio, Shannon B. Hill, Robert F. Berg, Sasa Bajt

Friction and wear in micro and nanomachines

Author(s)
Maarten de Boer, Sameer Shroff, Frank W. DelRio, W R. Ashurst
The prediction and characterization of multi-length-scale tribological phenomena is challenging, yet essential for the advancement of micro- and nanomachine

The SI and Quantum Metrology

Author(s)
Carl J. Williams
The United States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is playing a major role in the worldwide effort to base the International System of

Service Life Prediction -Why is this so hard?

Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Kenneth M. White, James Pickett
Service life prediction in general and weathering lifetime in particular have been persistent problems despite nearly a century of work. Part of the problem has