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Conferences

Retrieval of the Refractive Index Structure Parameter from Frequency Comb Timing Jitter Data

June 26, 2020

Author(s)

Emily Caldwell, Nathan Newbury, William Swann, Laura Sinclair, Jennifer L. Ellis, Martha I. Bodine, Greg Rieker, Carter Mak, Nathan Kuczun, Andreas Muschinski

ASSESSMENT OF A NOVEL POSITION VERIFICATION SENSOR TO IDENTIFY AND ISOLATE ROBOT WORKCELL HEALTH DEGRADATION

June 26, 2020

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Jared Kaplan

Manufacturing processes have become increasingly sophisticated leading to greater usage of robotics. Sustaining successful manufacturing robotic operations...

Asset Condition Management: A Framework for Smart, Health-Ready Manufacturing Systems

June 26, 2020

Author(s)

Nancy Diaz-Elsayed, Luis Hernandez, Ravi Rajamani, Brian Weiss

Unscheduled downtime in manufacturing systems can be a major source of lost productivity, profits, and, ultimately, reduced process quality and reliability...

Advanced sensing development to support accuracy assessment for industrial robot systems

June 26, 2020

Author(s)

Guixiu Qiao, Jonathan H. Garner

Manufacturers currently struggle with the assessment of a machine/robots' accuracy degradation that limits the efficiency of machine/robots in high precision...

MSEC: A QUANTITATIVE RETROSPECTIVE

June 25, 2020

Author(s)

Rachael Sexton, Michael Brundage, Alden A. Dima, Michael Sharp

The Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) in 2020 is the 15th annual conference put on by the Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) of ASME...

Operational Measurement Uncertainty and Bayesian Probability Distribution

June 25, 2020

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

The JCGM documents have undermined the operational concept of uncertainty in measurement established by the GUM and restored the pre-GUM practice of stating...

A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK MODEL FOR LEARNING RUNTIME FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTION USING SENSOR MEASUREMENTS

June 25, 2020

Author(s)

Yongzhi Qu, Gregory W. Vogl, Zechao Wang

The frequency response function (FRF), defined as the ratio between the Fourier transform of the time-domain output and the Fourier transform of the time-domain...

Influence of Dispositional and Situational Factors on Human Perceptions of Fire Risk

June 25, 2020

Author(s)

Isaac T. Leventon, Justin W. Bonny

Studies of human behavior during emergencies have observed that when presented with situational cues that a hazard may be present, humans can fail to act on...

The Impossibility of Efficient Quantum Weak Coin-Flipping

June 22, 2020

Author(s)

Carl A. Miller

How can two parties with competing interests carry out a fair coin flip, using only a noiseless quantum channel? This problem (quantum weak coin-flipping) was...

Understanding and Evaluating Naive Diagnostics Algorithms Applicable in Multistage Manufacturing from a Risk Management Perspective

June 21, 2020

Author(s)

Mehdi Dadfarnia, Michael Sharp, Timothy A. Sprock

The world has entered a state of unprecedented access to machine intelligence algorithms, where the ease of deployment has created a scenario where nearly every...

HALO - High Amplification Laser-pressure Optic

June 21, 2020

Author(s)

Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Kyle A. Rogers, Paul A. Williams, John H. Lehman

Efforts are underway at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to drastically reduce the uncertainty of laser power measurements using radiation...

Compact 1.7 K Cryocooler for Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

June 18, 2020

Author(s)

Vincent Y. Kotsubo, Joel N. Ullom, Sae Woo Nam

State-of-the-art superconductor-based cryogenic detector systems are being installed at numerous research facilities worldwide and are achieving world-record...

Contributions to Acoustic Loss in Langasite, Langatate, and Catangasite Resonators at High Temperatures

June 17, 2020

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson

Piezoelectric crystals in the langasite family can serve as a basis for resonant acoustic sensors that operate at temperatures exceeding the range of...

Integrating Field Measurements into a Model-Based Simulator for Industrial Communication Networks

June 11, 2020

Author(s)

Jing Geng, Honglei Li, Mohamed Hany, Yongkang Liu, Rick Candell, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

Efficient and accurate simulation methods are of increasing importance in the design and evaluation of factory communication systems. Model-based simulation...

EXPPO: EXecution Performance Profiling and Optimization for CPS Co-simulation-as-a-Service

June 10, 2020

Author(s)

Yogesh Barve, Himanshu Neema, Zhuangwei Kang, Hongyang Sun, Aniruddha Gokhale, Thomas Roth

A co-simulation may comprise several heterogeneous federates with diverse spatial and temporal execution characteristics. In an iterative time-stepped...

HLVU : A new challenge to test deep understanding of movies the way humans do

June 8, 2020

Author(s)

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

A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Estimating KPI and PoC for LTE-LAA-based Spectrum Sharing

June 7, 2020

Author(s)

Somayeh Mosleh, Yao Ma, Jake D. Rezac, Jason B. Coder

Machine learning (ML) approaches have been extensively exploited to model and to improve wireless communication networks in the past few years. Nonetheless, the...

Evaluation of Nondestructive Volumetric Testing Methods for Additively Manufactured Parts

June 4, 2020

Author(s)

Anne Francoise H. Obaton, Bryan Butsch, Stephen McDonough, Nans Laroche, Yves Gaillard, Jared Tarr, Patrick Bouvet, Rodolfo Cruz, Alkan Donmez

Additive manufacturing enables the production of customized and complex parts. These two aspects are very attractive for aerospace and medical sectors. However...

Application of Broadband RF Metrology to Integrated Circuit Interconnect Reliability Analyses: Monitoring Copper Interconnect Corrosion in 3D-ICs

June 4, 2020

Author(s)

Papa Amoah, Jesus Perez, Yaw S. Obeng

In this paper, we describe the development, and application, of a suite of high-frequency electromagnetic wave (RF) based techniques to probe material and...

Assessing Fire Smoke to Predict Backdraft and Smoke Explosion Potential

June 3, 2020

Author(s)

Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Thomas Cleary

The Fire Research Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is investigating the ability to forecast backdraft or smoke explosions during a...

Frequency Invariant Beampatterns for Wideband Synthetic Aperture Channel Sounders

May 29, 2020

Author(s)

Peter G. Vouras, Jeanne T. Quimby, Benjamin F. Jamroz, Alec J. Weiss, Rodney W. Leonhardt, Dylan F. Williams, Catherine A. Remley

This paper derives two novel frequency invariant beamformers (FIBs) for use with wideband synthetic aperture channel sounders. Results using measured data show...

A Unified Analytical Approach to Multi-Cell LBT-Based Spectrum Sharing Systems

May 28, 2020

Author(s)

Yao Ma, Somayeh Mosleh, Jason B. Coder

Future unlicensed spectrum sharing scenarios involve multi-cell, multi-tier access of incumbent and emerging wireless systems, such as wireless local area...

Investigating Coupled Effect of Radiative Heat Flux and Firebrand Showers on Ignition of Fuel Beds Structure vs Vegetative Firebrands

May 28, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

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Structure Ignition Mechanisms in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire and Associated California State Fire Marshal Standard Test Methods

May 28, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello

This is a two page extended abstract.

Utility Proportional Resource Allocation for Users with Diverse SLAs in Virtualized Radio Access Networks

May 26, 2020

Author(s)

Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Behnam Rouzbehani

A virtualization platform is responsible for allocation and aggregation of radio resources from different access technologies as well as the distribution of the...

Dynamic Spectrum Access with Reinforcement Learning for Unlicensed Access in 5G and Beyond

May 25, 2020

Author(s)

Somayeh Mosleh, Yao Ma, Jake D. Rezac, Jason B. Coder

Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) to achieve spectrum sharing in unlicensed bands is a promising approach for meeting the growing demands of forthcoming and...

Automated Fitting of Thermogravimetric Analysis Data

May 22, 2020

Author(s)

Isaac T. Leventon, Morgan C. Bruns

In Situ Examination of Engineered Local Additives in Cement Paste via Neutron-Based Scattering Techniques

May 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kunal Kupwade-Patil, Ali Bumajdad, Terrence J. Udovic, Kenneth Littrell, Oral Buyukozturk

This work investigates the effect of early-age hydration on microstructural evolution of cement paste with local volcanic ash using neutron-based beamline...

The 2019 NIST Audio-Visual Speaker Recognition Evaluation

May 18, 2020

Author(s)

Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Craig S. Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas A. Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero

In 2019, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations (SRE)...

The 2019 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation CTS Challenge

May 18, 2020

Author(s)

Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Craig S. Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero

In 2019, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a leaderboard style speaker recognition challenge using conversational...

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