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Conferences

Distributed Databases on the Factory Floor

Author(s)
Cita M. Furlani, Donald E. Libes, Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Mary Mitchell
A major facility for manufacturing research exists at the National Bureau of Standard (NBS). The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) serves as a

Robot Sensor Language

Author(s)
S Leake
RSL (Robot Sensor Language) is a data-driven, semi-interpreted, hierarchical, user extensible, robot task description language. It provides four levels of task

Control of an Automated Machining Workstation

Author(s)
Jay S. Jun, Charles R. McLean
The software architecture of the Vertical Machining Workstation (VWS) in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the National Bureau of

Process Reasoning

Author(s)
Steven R. Ray
With the increasing levels of automation in factories, production management systems need increasingly sophisticated models of manufacturing processes. A
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