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Conferences

Intelligent Control For Off-Road Driving

Author(s)
Karl Murphy, Marilyn N. Abrams, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Tommy Chang, Tsai Hong Hong, Alberto Lacaze, Steven Legowik
The NIST robot vehicle, a HMMWV with sensors and computer controlled actuators, detects how traversable the terrain is near the vehicle and computes its path...

SCUBA-2: Application of LTD Technology

Author(s)
William Duncan, Wayne Holland, Damian Audley, D R. Kelly, Tully Peacock, Peter Hastings, Michael MacIntosh, Kent D. Irwin, Sae Woo Nam, Gene C. Hilton, Steven Deiker, Anthony Walton, Alan Gundlach, William Parkes, Camilla Dunare, Peter Ade, Ian Robson
We outline the need for SCUBA 2, its goals and specifications. We give reasons for the choice of the low temperature detector technology of TES arrays and SQUID...

First Astronomical Use of Multiplexed Transition Edge Bolometers

Author(s)
D. J. Benford, Troy A. Ames, James A. Chervenak, Erich N. Grossman, Kent D. Irwin, S. A. De Kotwara, B. Maffci, S. H. Mosely, Francois Pajot, Thomas G. Phillips, Carl D. Reintsema, Cyrille Rioux, Rick A. Shafer, Johannes G. Staguhn, C. Vastel, George M. Voellmer
We present performance results based on the first astronomical use of mutiplexed superconducting bolometers. The Fabry-Perot Interferometer Bolometer Research...

Time-Division SQUID Multiplexers

Author(s)
Kent D. Irwin, Leila R. Vale, Norman F. Bergren, Steven Deiker, Erich N. Grossman, Gene C. Hilton, John M. Martinis, Sae Woo Nam, Carl D. Reintsema, David A. Rudman, Martin Huber
SQUID multiplexers (MUX) make is possible to build arrays of thousands of low-temperature bolometers and microcalorimeters based on superconducting transition...

Using Sensor Signals to Analyze Fires

Author(s)
William D. Davis, Thomas G. Cleary, Michelle K. Donnelly, S. D. Hellerman
Building fire sensors are capable of supplying substantially more information to the fire service than just the simple detection of a possible fire. Nelson, in...

Dependence Characteristics of Face Recognition Algorithms

Author(s)
Andrew L. Rukhin, Patrick J. Grother, P J. Phillips, Stefan D. Leigh, E M. Newton, Nathanael A. Heckert
Nonparametric statistics for quantifying dependence between the output rankings of face recognition algorithms are described. Analysis of the archived results...

NIST Electrostatic Force Balance Experiment

Author(s)
John A. Kramar, David B. Newell, Jon R. Pratt
We have designed and built a prototype electrostatic force balance for realizing forces in the micronewton range. The active electrodes are concentric cylinders...

Video-Based Metrology

Author(s)
Theodore D. Doiron, John R. Stoup, Marilyn N. Abrams, Tsai Hong Hong
Video cameras are increasingly used to make dimensional measurements. Many of these systems use interpolation of the pixel data, with some systems claiming to...
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