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Issues dealing with fast, 3-D, collision-free motion planning are discussed, and a fast path planning system under development at NBS is described. The...
The software architecture of the Vertical Machining Workstation (VWS) in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the National Bureau of...
A small batch manufacturing system testbed, currently under construction at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), is designed to support research in factory...
This paper describes SIPS, an AI system which selects machining operations for the creation of metal parts. SIPS is a successor to SIPP, which was described at...
The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) is a major government laboratory for research in computer...
A small batch manufacturing system testbed, the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF), currently under construction at the National Bureau of...
In most frame-based reasoning systems, the data manipulated by the system is represented using frames, and the problem-solving knowledge used to manipulate this...
This paper describes an algorithms for performing arbitrary translations and rotations of objects represented by octrees. Given an octree in a standards...
The net production and destruction rates for acetylene, diacetylene, butadiene, and benzene have been determined from measurements of species concentration...
This paper describes a system for the automated manufacture of metal parts developed at the National Bureau of Standards by the author and his colleagues. The...
A key factor in applying advance programming concepts to an industrial manufacturing environment is the establishment of a language to specify the process steps...
We describe a computer-optical processing system that uses an inexpensive liquid crystal (LCD) television monitor and a selective holographic filter for...
This paper describes results of recent work by several groups at the National Bureau of Standards as they relate to quality control in automated manufacturing...