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Conferences

HLPR Chair A Novel Patient Transfer Device

Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, James S. Albus
In this paper, we briefly describe the design of the Home Lift, Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair, invented at the National Institute of Standards and...

Ontological Perspectives for Autonomy Performance

Author(s)
Hui-Min Huang, Elena R. Messina, Tsai Hong Hong, Craig I. Schlenoff
Goals must be assigned for any unmanned system’s (UMS) operation before the system’s autonomous performance can be measured. In this paper, we began to...

Dynamic 6DOF Metrology for Evaluating a Visual Servoing

Author(s)
Tommy Chang, Tsai H. Hong, Michael O. Shneier, G Holguin, J Park, Roger D. Eastman
In this paper we demonstrate the use of a dynamic, six-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) laser tracker to empirically evaluate the performance of a real-time visual...

Measurement science for climate remote sensing

Author(s)
Gerald T. Fraser, Steven W. Brown, Raju V. Datla, Bettye C. Johnson, Keith R. Lykke, Joseph P. Rice
The Earth s climate is very complex and highly variable, making it difficult to measure and model small changes that occur over decadal and longer time scales...

Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry without a beamsplitter

Author(s)
Martin J. Stevens, Eric Dauler, Burm Baek, Richard J. Molnar, Scott A. Hamilton, Karl Berggren, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometry without a beamsplitter, by employing a single-mode optical fiber coupled to a multi-element superconducting...

Map Quality Assessment

Author(s)
Asim Wagan, Afzal A. Godil, Xiaolan Li
The Maps captured by robots in real environment are usually incomplete, distorted, and noisy. To evaluate the quality of these kind of maps is an important...

Wireless Communications in Tunnels for Urban Search and Rescue Robots

Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley, George Hough, Galen H. Koepke, Dennis G. Camell, Robert Johnk, Chriss A. Grosvenor
We report on propagation tests carried out in a subterranean tunnel to support improved wireless communications for urban search and rescue robots. We describe...

Strategies for Closing the ITRS Funding Gap

Author(s)
Yaw S. Obeng, Stephen Knight, Joaquin (. Martinez
For over 35 years, each IC generation has doubled the transistor count while cutting the cost per function in half. This progress, described by Moore's Law, has...

The International State of Building System Commissioning

Author(s)
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Nobuo Nakahara, Harunori Yoshida
Buildings are a major and growing source of energy consumption and as such, contribute to the significant problems associated with energy dependence and growing...

Ventilation Measurements in Selected IAQ Studies

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily
Building and space ventilation rates are primary determinants of indoor pollutant levels and occupant exposures, and the impacts of ventilation on health and...

Development of a Design Guide to Improve Building IAQ

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Martha Hewett, Jude Anders, Lynn Bellenger, Ronald Burton, John Girman, Eli HowardI, Eric Werling
Building owners and developers, and the designers and contractors they employ, are faced with a variety of requirements related to building function...

Highly charged ion (HCI) modified tunnel junctions

Author(s)
Joshua M. Pomeroy, Holger Grube
The neutralization energy carried by highly charged ions (HCIs) provides a fundamentally independent method for localizing energy on a target’s surface...

Improved multiplexed Infrared Single Photon Detectors

Author(s)
Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall, V Schettini, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Giorgio Brida, F Piacentini
We discuss a scheme for a photon-counting detection system that overcomes the difficulties of photon-counting at high rates at telecom wavelengths. Our method...
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