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Conferences

Ontology-Based Methods for Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Path Planning

November 1, 2004

Author(s)

R Provine, Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, S Smith, M Uschold

We report the results of a first implementation demonstrating the use of an ontology to support reasoning about obstacles to improve the capabilities and...

Integrating Disparate Knowledge Representations Within 4D/RCS

November 1, 2004

Author(s)

James S. Albus, Craig I. Schlenoff, Rajmohan (. Madhavan, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Tony Barbera

In this paper, we show how the 4D/RCS architecture incorporates and integrates multiple types of disparate knowledge representation techniques into a common...

Feature-Based Component Model for Design of Embedded Systems

November 1, 2004

Author(s)

XuanFang Zha, Ram D. Sriram

An embedded system is a hybrid of hardware and software, which combines software?s flexibility and hardware real-time performance. Embedded systems can be...

Optical Control and Management Security Standards for the GIG-BE

October 31, 2004

Author(s)

Renee Esposito, Sheila E. Frankel, Richard Graveman, Scott McNown

This paper presents an overview of requirements and standards development activities for securing the control and management infrastructure protocols for...

Status report on next generation LADAR for driving unmanned ground vehicles

October 28, 2004

Author(s)

Maris Juberts, Tony Barbera

The U.S. Department of Defense has initiated plans for the deployment of autonomous robotic vehicles in various tactical military operations starting in about...

Towards Autonomous On-Road Driving via Multi-Resolutional and Hierarchical Moving Object Prediction

October 28, 2004

Author(s)

Jerome G. Ajot, Craig I. Schlenoff, Rajmohan (. Madhavan

In this paper, we present the PRIDE framework (Prediction In Dynamic Environments), which is a hierarchical multiresolutional approach for moving object...

Task Analysis of Autonomous On-road Driving

October 28, 2004

Author(s)

Tony Barbera, John A. Horst, Craig I. Schlenoff, David Aha

The Real-time Control System (RCS) Methodology has evolved over a number of years as a technique to capture task knowledge and organize it into a framework...

Performance evaluation of road detection and following algorithms

October 28, 2004

Author(s)

Tsai H. Hong, A Takeuchi, M Foedissch, Michael O. Shneier

We describe a methodology for evaluating algorithms to provide quantitative information about how well road detection and road following algorithms perform. The...

Achieving intelligent performance in autonomous on-road driving

October 28, 2004

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, John Evans, Tony Barbera, James S. Albus, Elena R. Messina

This paper describes NIST?s efforts in evaluating what it will take to achieve autonomous human-level driving skills in terms of time and funding. NIST has...

Metrology for Characterizing Sratch Resistance of Polymer Coatings.

October 27, 2004

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, P L. Drzal, M R. Vanlandingham, T Y. Wu

Relating Gloss Loss to Topographical Features of a PVDF Coating.

October 27, 2004

Author(s)

J Faucheu, Li Piin Sung, Jonathan W. Martin, K A. Wood

A Spectrally Tunable LED Sphere Source Enables Accurate Calibration of Tristimulus Colorimeters

October 22, 2004

Author(s)

Irena Fryc, Steven W. Brown, Yoshihiro Ohno

The Four-Color Method (FCM) was developed to improve the accuracy of chromaticity measurements of various colors of a display. The method is valid for each type...

Spherical-Scanning Measurements: Propagating Errors through the Near- to Far-Field Transformation

October 22, 2004

Author(s)

Ronald C. Wittmann, Michael H. Francis

We estimate uncertainties in the test antenna transmitting function due to uncertainties in the near-field measurements and in the probe receiving function.

Mechanism of Dynamic NBTI of pMOSFETs

October 21, 2004

Author(s)

Baozhong Zhu, John S. Suehle, Joseph B. Berstein

A series of experiments are conducted to study the physical mechanism of reduced NBTI effects observed under pulsed bias conditions. A reduction of Vth and Ion...

LED Photometric Calibrations at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Future Measurement Needs of LEDs

October 20, 2004

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller, Yuqin Zong, Yoshihiro Ohno

Validation of the Receprocity Law for Coating Photodegradation

October 20, 2004

Author(s)

Joannie W. Chin, Tinh Nguyen, Jonathan W. Martin, E Byrd

Accelerating the photodegradation of commerical polymeric materials has great practical importance in the weathering community. However, questions exist as to...

Dielectric Characterization of Single-Crystal LiF,CaF2,MgF2, BaF2, and SrF2 at Microwave Frequencyies

October 20, 2004

Author(s)

Richard G. Geyer, James R. Baker-Jarvis, Jerzy Krupka

Lithium, calcium, magnesium, and barium fluorides have widespread use in ultraviolet, infrared, and scintillation applications. Although their optical...