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Conferences

Engineering Intelligent Systems

Author(s)
James S. Albus
What is intelligence? Where did it come from? What is its fundamental nature? What are its elemental constituents? Can it be created artificially? If so how...

The NIST Design/Process Planning Integration Project

Author(s)
Walter W. Nederbragt, Robert Allen, Shaw C. Feng, Serge Kaing, Ram D. Sriram, Yuyun Zhang
This paper presents a description of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Design/Process Planning Integration (DPPI) Project, which...

Standards for the Rapid Prototyping Industry

Author(s)
Kevin K. Jurrens
This discussion paper proposes that development of formalized standards for the rapid prototyping (RP) industry will help enable the continued growth and...

Case Against Optical Gauge Block Metrology

Author(s)
Theodore D. Doiron, Dennis S. Everett, Bryon S. Faust, Eric S. Stanfield, John R. Stoup
The current definition of length of a gage block is a very clever attempt to evade the systematic errors associated with the wringing layer thickness and...

Mission Structure for an Unmanned Vehicle

Author(s)
A Meystel, Yigal Moscovitz, Elena R. Messina
The 4-D/Real-Time Control Systems Architecture (4- D/RCS) defines a hierarchical decomposition for intelligent systems, with corresponding command and control...

Towards STEP-Based Data Transfer in Layered Manufacturing

Author(s)
D Dutta, Anil Kumar, Mike Pratt, Ram D. Sriram
This paper concerns the informational requirements of layered manufacturing (LM). The most common industrial use of LM today is for rapid prototyping, but we...

Design of a Novel Fixture for Part Referencing

Author(s)
Walter W. Nederbragt, Bahram Ravani
This paper presents a novel design for a practical tactilesensing mechanical fixture. The fixture consists of two tactilesensing surfaces, a cylindrical surface...

Are the Formulas for Mode-Field Diameter Correct?

Author(s)
Ronald C. Wittmann, M. Young
We have found conceptual problems with the far-field formula 1 for mode field diameter First, the formulation is incomplete in that it ignores the obliquity...
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