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Conferences

Experiments toward Non-contact Safety Standards for Automated Industrial Vehicles

June 28, 2006

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai Hong Hong, Rajmohan Madhavan

The performance evaluation of an obstacle detection and segmentation algorithm is explained upon comparing a new range camera to ground truth. Automated Guided...

Polarization-resolved photoluminescence study of individual GaN nanowires grown by catalyst-free MBE

June 28, 2006

Author(s)

John B. Schlager, Norman Sanford, Kristine A. Bertness, Joy Barker, Alexana Roshko, Paul T. Blanchard

Polarization- and temperature-dependent photoluminescence (PL) measurements were performed on individual GaN nanowires. These were grown by catalyst-free...

Collaborative Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Ground and Air Vehicles

June 28, 2006

Author(s)

James S. Albus, Anthony J. Barbera, Harry A. Scott, Stephen B. Balakirsky

Tactical behaviors for autonomous ground and air vehicles are an area of high interest to the Army. They are critical for the inclusion of robots in the Future...

Autonomy Levels for Unmanned Systems (ALFUS) Framework: An Update

June 28, 2006

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, K Pavek, James S. Albus, Elena R. Messina

The initial construct of the framework for the Autonomy Levels of Unmanned Systems (ALFUS) was presented in the 2004 SPIE3 Defense and Security Symposium. This...

Performance Analysis of Unmanned Vehicle Positioning and Obstacle Mapping

June 27, 2006

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai Hong Hong, Rajmohan Madhavan, Tommy Chang, Harry A. Scott

As unmanned ground vehicles take on more and more intelligent tasks, determination of potential obstacles and accurate estimation of their position become...

A Standard Intelligent System Ontology

June 27, 2006

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, R Washington, Anthony J. Barbera, C Manteuffel

The level of automation in combat vehicles being developed for the Army?s objective force is greatly increased over the Army?s legacy force. This automation is...

An Intelligent Ground Vehicle Ontology for Multi-Agent System Integration

June 27, 2006

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, R Washington, Anthony J. Barbera

The level of automation in ground combat vehicles being developed for the Army?s objective force is greatly increased over the Army?s legacy force. The...

THE LAGR PROJECT - Integrating learning into the 4D/RCS Control Hierarchy

June 27, 2006

Author(s)

James S. Albus, Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, William P. Shackleford, Michael O. Shneier

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) has been a part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency...

MOAST and USARSim-A Combined Framework for the Development and Testing of Autonomous Systems

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Christopher J. Scrapper Jr, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Elena R. Messina

Urban Search and Rescue Simulation (USARSim) is an open source package that provides a high-resolution, physics based simulation of robotic platforms. The...

Performance Standards for Urban Search and Rescue Robots

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Elena R. Messina, Adam S. Jacoff

In this paper, we describe work in performance standards for urban search and rescue (USAR) robots begun in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security. This...

Towards an Approach for Knowledge-Based Road Detection

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Mike Foedisch, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael O. Shneier

Our previous work on road detection suggests the usage of prior knowledge in order to improve performance. In this paper we will explain our motivation for a...

NIST Industrial Control System Security Activities

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Keith A. Stouffer

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has several ongoing efforts to address industrial control system security. This paper will present an...

3D Range Imaging for Urban Search and Rescue Robotics Research

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai Hong Hong, Rajmohan Madhavan, Brian A. Weiss

Urban search and rescue (US&R) operations can be extremely dangerous for human rescuers during disaster response. Human task forces carrying necessary tools and...

Towards an Approach for Knowledge-based Road Detection

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Mike Foedisch, M Lochner, D Teumim

Our previous work on road detection suggests the usage of prior knowledge in order to improve performance. In this paper we will explain our motivation for a...

Validating Portability of Step-NC Tool Center Programming

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Sid Venkatesh, David Odendahl, Xun W. Xu, John L. Michaloski, Frederick M. Proctor, Thomas Kramer

A joint effort between Boeing and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was undertaken for validating and evaluating STEP AP238 (STEP-NC)...

A Framework for Autonomy Levels for Unmanned Systems (ALFUS)

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, K Pavek, B Novak, James S. Albus, Elena R. Messina

Safety Standard Advancement Toward Mobile Robot Use Near Humans

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, Rajmohan (. Madhavan, Tommy Chang

As mobile robots have increasingly improved onboard intelligence, they are being used in more flexible manufacturing, warehouse and/or military environments...

Intelligent Control and Tactical Behavior Development: A Long Term NIST Partnership with the Army

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

James S. Albus, Tony Barbera

For more than 15 years, the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has worked closely with the Army Research...

Guidance and Performance Impact Testing to Support the use of Antivirus Software on SCADA and Industrial Control Systems

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Joseph Falco, M Lochner, D Teumim

End-users and vendors of control systems used in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Industrial Control System(s) (ICS) have expressed concerns...

A Robot Ontology for Urban Search and Rescue

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Elena R. Messina

The goal of this Robot Ontology effort is to develop and begin to populate a neutral knowledge representation (the data structures) capturing relevant...

Open Source Implementation of the NIST HealthCare Standards Landscape

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Hai C. Tang, Roy S. Morgan, Thomas R. Rhodes, Clement Ridoret

The NIST HealthCare Standards Landscape (HCSL) web site is a project to develop and demonstrate a web-based repository of information (called "Landscape") on...

Dynamically Generating Conformance Tests for Messaging Systems

June 26, 2006

Author(s)

Robert D. Snelick, Leonard E. Gebase, Sydney Henrard

The advent of XML technologies for data exchange negotiations in B2B applications is proliferating a new class of messaging standards that are only fully...

Heating Rates and Enhanced Equilibration Rates with Strongly Correlated Ions in a Penning-Malmberg Trap

June 25, 2006

Author(s)

John J. Bollinger, Marie J. Jensen, T Hasegawa, D H. Dubin

We laser cool up to 10 6 9Be + ions to ~ 1 mK in a Penning-Malmberg trap and measure the ion temperature as a function of time after turning off the cooling...

Spectroscopy of atomic and molecular ions using quantum logic

June 25, 2006

Author(s)

Piet Schmidt, Till P. Rosenband, Jeroen Koelemeij, David Hume, Wayne M. Itano, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland

Recently developed techniques for quantum computation using trapped ions allow unprecedented coherent control of the internal and external states of single...

Single Point Optical Calibration of Accelerometers at NIST

June 21, 2006

Author(s)

Beverly F. Payne

Typical accelerometer calibrations by laser interferometer are performed by measuring displacement at three places on the shaker table. Each of these...

Entity Knowledge Model Supporting Intelligent Systems

June 20, 2006

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, James S. Albus, Elena R. Messina, Harry A. Scott, Maris Juberts

Intelligent systems operate in uncertain and complex environments. In order to achieve their goals, these systems require rich and updated knowledge about the...

Quantum Key Distribution System Operating at Sifted-Key Rate over 4 Mbit/s

June 19, 2006

Author(s)

Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis, Hai Xu, Barry J. Hershman, Joshua Bienfang, David H. Su, Ronald Boisvert, Charles W. Clark, Carl J. Williams

A complete fiber-based polarization encoding quantum key distribution (QKD) system based on the BB84 protocol has been developed at National Institute of...

Determining Design Fires for Design-Level and Extreme Events

June 16, 2006

Author(s)

Richard W. Bukowski

Proper fire safety design requires the appropriate selection of design fires against which the performance of the building is evaluated. The selection of the...

Determining Design Fires for Design-Level and Extreme Events.

June 14, 2006

Author(s)

Richard W. Bukowski

The Computational Complexity of Enforceability Validation for Generic Access Control Rules

June 14, 2006

Author(s)

Chung Tong Hu, David R. Kuhn, David F. Ferraiolo

In computer security, many researches have tackled on the possibility of a unified model of access control, which could enforce any access control policies...

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