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Conferences

PSCR 2020_First Responder IoT Environments: Examining Data Foundations

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Alison M. Kahn

As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies become more prevalent in society, there is still a large technology gap existing in the public safety field. This...

PSCR 2020_PSCR Program Overview

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Dereck R. Orr

PSCRs Division Chief, Dereck Orr, shares an introduction to PSCR 2020: The Digital Experience and a brief overview of PSCRs history. Attendees hear important...

PSCR 2020_Crisis Collaborations: Challenges for Safe Data Sharing with Differential Privacy

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Diane Ridgeway, Gary Howarth, Christine Task, David Van Ballegooijen

Public safety programs frequently generate data with personally identifiable information. This session examines public safety open data initiatives, the privacy...

PSCR 2020: What We Learned by Participating in a PSCR Challenge

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah L. Hughes, Todd Heinl, Felix Desourdy, Sean Hackett, Ryan Fields-Spack

This NIST publication consists of two past judges and two innovators sharing from their perspective what they learned about innovating for public safety through...

PSCR 2020_ Public Safety ICAM Critical Topics and New NIST Documents

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

William J. Fisher

Overview of new Publics Safety ICAM NIST Documents.

PSCR 2020_5G Security Evolution not Revolution

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Cichonski

5G has promised to change the way we communicate with an ambitious slate of capabilities not yet available in the 5G networks deployed today, but rather are...

PSCR 2020_ Tech to Protect - Year in Review

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Craig T. Connelly, Jason D. Kahn, Gary S. Howarth, Margaret Pinson, Bill Schrier, Charles Hardnett, Lauren Schluzas, Austin Handle, Levi Adissi, Francis Lin, Zack Braun

Launched in April 2019, the Tech to Protect Challenge is one year old. This session will recap the progress to date, highlight recent national award winners...

PSCR 2020_Mission Critical Voice Portfolio Strategy

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Donald A. Bradshaw

An overview of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division 2020 Mission Critical Voice (MCV) portfolio. This includes a cohesive view of the...

PSCR 2020: PSCRs Pre-Commercialization Program and Notice of Funding Opportunity: 2020-NIST-PSIAP-TABA-01

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah L. Hughes, Ellen L. Ryan, Scott S. McNichol

During this conference recording, the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division discusses their motivation for a pre- commercialization program and...

PSCR 2020_ Connecting the First Responder's Environment

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Donald L. Harriss

In most first responder events, a building or structure is involved with some degree of importance. Knowledge of building structures and current building...

PSCR 2020_Making an Impact: Experiences of PSCR's Awardees

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jeremy E. Glenn, Fidel Liberal, Solmaz Kia, Heather Sittig, Rajarathnam Chandramouli

This session seeks to explore the impacts of the PSIAP program on award recipients. Our diverse panel of awardees will discuss their experience including how...

PSCR 2020_Building VR for Public Safety

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jack R. Lewis, Christopher E. Johnson, Jeffrey L. Karhoff

In this presentation members of the UI/UX Virtual Reality development team from PSCR NIST will show their process for designing and building VR simulations for...

PSCR 2020_Expanding the SIM Card Use Prize Challenge Overview

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Michael J. Bartock, Conor Patrick, Matt Lourie, Shane Weeden

PSCR and a few partnering entities finished a recent PSCR sponsored prize challenge, the Expanding the SIM Card Use for Public Safety. The challenge requested...

PSCR 2020_Immersive Firearm Ballistics Simulation in Virtual Reality

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Christopher E. Johnson

Virtual Reality Developer Chris Johnson conducts a deep dive analysis into the considerations and challenges of creating an immersive virtual reality AR-15...

PSCR 2020_Pecha Kucha Portfolio Overview

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

John Beltz, Roger Blalock, Donald Bradshaw, John S. Garofolo, Joe Grasso, Scott Ledgerwood, Brianna Vendetti

The PSCR Research Portfolio Leaders provide overview presentations of the projects housed within their portfolios, using just 20 slides that showcase each for...

PSCR 2020_Access Driven Modified Rhyme Test Intelligibility

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jaden K. Pieper, Stephen D. Voran

Previous work by NIST/PSCR focused on developing a quality of experience-based access time measurement system. This system relies on modified rhyme test (MRT)...

Detecting and Understanding Sodium Movement in Solar Panel Encapsulant Polymers

October 28, 2020

Author(s)

Stephanie Moffitt

Large, utility-scale solar farms currently represent the most cost-efficient form of solar panel installation. However, photovoltaic (PV) panels in large arrays...

Combinatorial Methods for Explainable AI

October 24, 2020

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei, Dimitris Simos

This paper introduces an approach to producing explanations or justifications of decisions made by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) systems...

Curved-Edge Displacement Sensor for Spindle Dynamic Identification

October 23, 2020

Author(s)

Seungjoo Lee, Jungsub Kim, ChaBum Lee, Gregory Vogl

Development of a New Standard for the Performance Evaluation of Single Axis Linear Positioning Systems

October 23, 2020

Author(s)

Gregory W. Vogl, Ronnie Fesperman, Steve Ludwick, Richard Klopp, Axel Grabowski, Justin Lebel, Jimmie Miller, Nathan Brown, Eric Belski, Nicholas Duncan, C W. Hennessey

FPGA-based Low-Latency Digital Servo for Optical Physics Experiments

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Marco Pomponio, Archita Hati, Craig Nelson

We propose a general-purpose dual-channel field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based digital servo with a minimum latency around 200 ns. This servo implements a...

Multipath Parameter Extraction and Correction from Frequency Dependent Amplitude Fading

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig Nelson

Multipath interference can be a challenging problem in the determination of accurate outdoor and indoor localization. There are methods that exist to mitigate...

Application of ASCE 41 to a two-story CFS building

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew Speicher, Zhidong Zhang, Benjamin W. Schafer

The objective of this paper is to summarize the evaluation results from applying the updated performance-based seismic design provisions: ASCE 41-17, on a cold...

PSCR 2020_ Prototyping 3D User Interfaces for First Responders

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Katelynn A. Kapalo

Due to rapid advances in technology, first responders will eventually have access to building information, sensor data, and fire protection system data in real...

International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding

October 21, 2020

Author(s)

Keith Curtis, George Awad, Shahzad K. Rajput, Ian Soboroff

This is the introduction paper to the International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding. In recent years, a growing trend towards working on understanding...

Human-Supervised Semi-Autonomous Mobile Manipulators for Safely and Efficiently Executing Machine Tending Tasks

October 16, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah Al-Hussaini, Shantanu Thakar, Hyojeong Kim, Pradeep Rajendran, Brual C. Shah, Alec Kanyuck, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta

Mobile manipulators can be used for machine tending and material handling tasks in small volume manufacturing applications. These applications usually have semi...

FPGA Implementation of a Low Latency and High SFDR Direct Digital Synthesizer for Resource-Efficient Quantum-Enhanced Communication

October 15, 2020

Author(s)

FNU Nur Fajar Rizqi Annafianto, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Ivan Burenkov, Hasan Urgurdag, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov

In most modulation schemes for a telecommunication system, a fast and efficient sinusoidal signal generator is needed. Here we report on an FPGA implementation...

Characterization of a Josephson Junction Comb Generator

October 13, 2020

Author(s)

Akim Babenko, Alirio De Jesus Soares Boaventura, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Justus Brevik, Anna Fox, Dylan Williams, Zoya Popovic, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz

We present a new type of microwave frequency combs with a potentially calculable pulse shape. The device is an array of 1500 Josephson junctions (JJs) connected...

Storing and retrieving wavefronts with resistive temporal memory

October 10, 2020

Author(s)

Advait Madhavan, Mark D. Stiles

We extend the reach of temporal computing schemes by developing a memory for multi-channel temporal patterns or "wavefronts." This temporal memory re-purposes...

Frequency tunable label-free surface acoustic wave-based flow sensor

October 7, 2020

Author(s)

Aurore F. Quelennec, Jason J. Gorman, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez

We present a label-free SAW-based flow sensor with enhanced precision and repeatability. This sensor improves the signal-to-noise ratio by one order of...

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