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Most modern instruments of measurements for science, engineering, and commerce have embedded software. Also software is required for data handling and...
The Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) ASTM-2761 Standard specifies an architecture for real-time medical device interoperability, and a set of Clinical...
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Premsagar P. Kavuri
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has gone through a tremendous evolution to become indispensable for many and diverse scientific and industrial...
The high resolution of the SEM is especially useful for qualitative and quantitative applications for both nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing. But, should...
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Premsagar P. Kavuri
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has gone through a tremendous evolution to become a critical tool for many and diverse scientific and industrial...
Jason B. Coder, David R. Novotny, Michael H. Francis, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri
The extrapolation measurement technique has been used with the three antenna method for more than 40 years, to determine absolute antenna gain and polarization...
Prevention, detection and response are nowadays considered to be three priority topics for protecting critical infrastructures, such as energy control systems...
One of the primary approaches being explored to produce more sustainable concretes consists of replacing a significant portion of the portland cement with...
Kevin L. Mills, Christopher E. Dabrowski, James J. Filliben, Sanford P. Ressler
Large infrastructures, such as clouds, can exhibit substantial outages, sometimes due to failure scenarios that were not considered during system design. We...
Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez, Michael W. Halter, Jeeseong Hwang
Here we present a new metrology tool for the determination of the dimensions of channels from final product Lab-on-a-chip devices. Using Optical Coherence...
Walter G. McDonough, Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Amanda L. Forster, Scott A. Wight, Joy P. Dunkers, Gale A. Holmes
Since the well-publicized failure of body armor used by a police officer, it has become imperative that the long-term properties and performance of new fibers...
Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., Brian O'Connor, Jonathan D. Ellis
Many new ultra-precision linear positioning systems are finding their way into emerging technologies that are requiring exceptional straightness performance...
Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., Brian O'Connor, Serge Maneuf
Many new ultra-precision linear and angular positioning systems are finding their way into emerging technologies that rely on positioning systems to make small...
Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., Nathan Brown, Kevin Elliott, Jonathan D. Ellis, Axel Grabowski, Steve Ludwick, Serge Maneuf, Brian O'Connor, Shane Woody
Many new high-precision linear and angular positioning systems are being used in emerging micro- and nanotechnology applications. Measuring and certifying the...
We present an overview of the current safety standards for industrial robots and automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and describe how they relate to the safety...
Craig I. Schlenoff, Tsai Hong Hong, Roger D. Eastman
The purpose of this paper is to review existing sensor and sensor network ontologies to understand whether they can be reused as a basis for a manufacturing...
Massimiliano M. Ferrucci, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Christopher J. Blackburn, Daniel S. Sawyer, Steven D. Phillips, Vincent D. Lee, Peter Petrov, Yuri Yakovlev, Andrey Astrelin, Spike Milligan, John Palmateer
Large volume laser scanners are used for a variety of purposes, including dimensional metrology of large artifacts, digitization and reverse engineering, as...
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Massimiliano M. Ferrucci, Daniel S. Sawyer, Grant Gerner, Vincent D. Lee, Christopher J. Blackburn, Steven D. Phillips, Peter Petrov, Yuri Yakovlev, Andrey Astrelin, Spike Milligan, John Palmateer
There are several sources of error in a laser scanner measurement. The optical and material properties of the target, the shape, form, surface texture, color...
Evidence Graphs model network intrusion evidence and their dependencies, which helps network forensics analyst collate and visualize dependencies. In particular...
This paper discusses limitations in one of the most widely cited single source scan detection algorithms: threshold random walk (TRW). If an attacker knows that...
We present the theory and algorithms for establishing a datum plane consistent with ASME Y14.5 standard definitions corresponding to a planar datum feature...
Paulina S. Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Oliver T. Slattery, Yong-Su Kim, Xiao Tang
We propose a scheme to generate polarization-entangled photon pairs by spontaneous parametric downconversion in a phase-modulated, type-II, quasi-phasematched...
Itzel Dominguez, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei
This poster presents some measures of combinatorial coverage that can be helpful in estimating residual risk related to insufficient testing of rare...
The technique of acquiring transmission electron diffraction patterns in the scanning electron microscope, SEM, using components of commercially available...
Peter Bajcsy, Antoine Vandecreme, Julien M. Amelot, Phuong T. Nguyen, Joe Chalfoun, Mary C. Brady
We present a characterization of four basic terabyte size image computations on a Hadoop cluster in terms of their relative efficiency according to the modified...
This work addresses the problem of re-projecting a terabyte-sized 3D data set represented as a set of 2D Deep Zoom pyramids. In general, a re-projection for...
David R. Novotny, Joshua A. Gordon, Jason B. Coder, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, Michael H. Francis
We are using industrial-grade robotics guided by a metrology-grade laser tracker to perform antenna calibrations at mmWave frequencies. We are using a 3 m-reach...