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Conferences

Machine Learning in a Quality Managed RF Measurement Workflow

July 6, 2019

Author(s)

Aric Sanders, John Bass, Arpita Bhutani, Mary A. Ho, Jim Booth

Advances in artificial intelligence, or more specifically machine learning, have made it possible for computers to recognize patterns as well or better than...

THE MEASURED HEAT RELEASE RATES OF TRANSIENT FUEL ITEMS FOUND IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Jason E. Floyd, Kevin B. McGrattan, Matthew Bundy

Fire is one of the significant contributors to the overall risk of core damage at a nuclear power plant (NPP). Potential sources of fire include permanent plant...

62.5-GHz Phased-Array Channel Sounder for Double-Directional Angle Estimation

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Peter B. Papazian, Derek Caudill, Camillo Gentile, Jack Chuang, Nada T. Golmie

The paper describes implementation of phased array antennas for use in a wideband channel sounding system. The antennas are 62.5 GHz prototypes, utilizing SiGe...

SIS Contagion Avoidance on a Network Growing by Preferential Attachment

June 30, 2019

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux, Vladimir V. Marbukh

The economic and convenience benefits of interconnectivity drive the current explosive growth in networked systems. However, as recent catastrophic contagious...

On the Use of Laboratory Scale Experiments to Better Understand Firebrand Generation From Large Outdoor Fires

June 30, 2019

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Experiments were conducted using mock-ups of full-scale roofing assemblies to determine if any insight into firebrand generation from real-scale structures as...

Reference data set and variability study for human skin reflectance

June 30, 2019

Author(s)

P. Yvonne Barnes, David W. Allen, Benjamin K. Tsai

The optical properties of human skin have been of interest to researchers for some time. Their interest is based on a need to know for a variety of different...

Non Nulling Measurements of Flue Gas Flows in a Coal-Fired Power Plant Stack

June 28, 2019

Author(s)

Aaron N. Johnson, Iosif I. Shinder, Bernard J. Filla, Joey T. Boyd, Rodney A. Bryant, Michael R. Moldover

Exhaust flows from coal-fired stacks are determined by measuring the flue gas velocity at prescribed points in the stack cross section. During the last 30+...

Reproducibility of Liquid Micro-Flow Measurements

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

John D. Wright, James W. Schmidt

New applications in biology, medicine, and manufacturing require reliable measurements of liquid flows smaller than 100 υL/min. NIST addressed this requirement...

Selecting Building Characteristics to Predict Seismic Retrofit Costs of a Building Portfolio

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, Siamak Sattar, David T. Butry, Steven L. McCabe

An accurate yet simple estimate of the retrofit cost plays an important role in the decision-making process of retrofitting existing buildings. Fung et al....

Automated Substitution Weighing Apparatus for Liquid Volume Measurement

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Sherry D. Sheckels, Joey T. Boyd

The custody transfer of petroleum worth $1 × 10 12 / year is traced to the volume delivered from provers and liquid test measures. Mistakes as small as 0.02 %...

Toward data-driven production simulation modeling: dispatching rule identification by machine learning techniques

June 24, 2019

Author(s)

Satoshi Nagahara, Timothy A. Sprock, Moneer Helu

Production simulation is useful to predict and optimize future production. However, it requires much effort and expertize to create accurate simulation models...

Optimization of Air-to-Refrigerant Evaporator with Low-GWP Refrigerants

June 23, 2019

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski

An analytical evaluation of the performance of low-GWP refrigerants in a finned-tube evaporator used for residential cooling applications will be presented. The...

Supplementing rigorous electromagnetic modeling with atomistic simulations for optics-based metrology

June 21, 2019

Author(s)

Bryan M. Barnes, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver, Mark Alexander Henn

The successful combination of electromagnetic scattering simulations and optical measurements allows for the quantification of deep-subwavelength features...

High Fidelity Simulation of IEEE 802.11ad in ns-3 Using a Quasi-deterministic Channel Model

June 21, 2019

Author(s)

Hany Assasa, Joerg Widmer, Tanguy Ropitault, Anuraag Bodi, Nada T. Golmie

Supporting high data-rates and a large number of connected devices has always been challenging for wireless technologies operating in the microwave band...

An Implementation Proposal for IEEE 802.11ay SU/MU-MIMO Communication in ns-3

June 21, 2019

Author(s)

Hany Assasa, Joerg Widmer, Jian Wang, Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie

Wireless communications in the millimeter-wave band bring unprecedented capabilities to achieve wireline performance in wireless networks and alleviate the...

Enhancing the ns-3 IEEE 802.11ad Model Fidelity: Beam Codebook, Multi-Antenna Beamforming Training, and Quasi-Deterministic mmWave Channel

June 21, 2019

Author(s)

Hany Assasa, Joerg Widmer, Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie

Next generation wireless local area networks are envisioned to serve a high number of devices with heterogeneous capabilities and service requirements...

W -Band Vibrometer for Noncontact Thermoacoustic Imaging

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig Nelson

Noncontact thermoacoustic imaging (TAI) has several desirable characteristics for applications such as explosive detection in high-water-content media. In this...

FEA solver integration framework

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock, Jerome Szarazi

Integrating finite element analysis (FEA) with systems engineering (SE) would improve traceability, consistency, and interoperability between SE and FEA...

Decision Support for Smart Grid: Using Reasoning to Contextualize Complex Decision Making

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Edward R. Griffor, David A. Wollman, Patrick Kamongi, Claire Vishik, Michael Huth, Marcello Balduccini

The smart grid is a complex cyber-physical system (CPS) that poses challenges related to scale, integration, interoperability, processes, governance, and human...

Motivating Cybersecurity Advocates: Implications for Recruitment and Retention

June 19, 2019

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Wayne Lutters

Given modern society's dependence on technological infrastructure vulnerable to cyber-attacks, the need to expedite cybersecurity adoption is paramount...

Reducing Localization Error of Vision-Guided Industrial Robots

June 18, 2019

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Geraldine S. Cheok, Jeremy A. Marvel

In many manufacturing applications, such as automated drilling or inspection of large parts, accurate knowledge of both position and orientation is critical. In...

Discriminated properties of PEI functionalized gold nanoparticles (Au-PEIs) predetermined by synthetic routes of ligand exchange and reduction processes: Paths and Fates

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Tae Joon Cho, John M. Pettibone, Vincent A. Hackley

Polyethyleneimine (PEI) functionalized AuNPs (Au-PEIs) are have potent as positively charged gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for nano-medicinal applications, due to...

Cell Image Segmentation using Generative Adversarial Networks, Transfer Learning, and Augmentations

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Michael P. Majurski, Petru S. Manescu, Sarala Padi, Nicholas J. Schaub, Nathan A. Hotaling, Carl Simon Jr., Peter Bajcsy

We address the problem of segmenting cell contours from microscopy images of human induced pluripotent Retinal Pigment Epithelial stem cells (iRPE) using...

The Blind Side: Using Canned Loading Protocols in Seismic Testing

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Matthew S. Speicher, Bruce F. Maison

The seismic behavior of a building component (e.g., shear wall) is a fundamental attribute engineers need to assess the earthquake performance of a building. It...

Manipulation Data Collection and Annotation Tool for Media Forensics

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Eric Robertson, Haiying Guan, Mark Kozak, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Andrew Delgado, Daniel F. Zhou, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah, Jeff Smith, Jonathan G. Fiscus

With the increasing diversity and complexity of media forensics techniques, the evaluation of state-of-the-art detectors are impeded by lacking the metadata and...

Building Design Considerations to Support Immediate Occupancy Performance Objectives

June 16, 2019

Author(s)

Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Katherine Johnson, Therese P. McAllister, Steven McCabe

The intent of current building codes for typical commercial and residential buildings is to safeguard against loss of life to building occupants by minimizing...

Testing of the MTConnect - OPC-UA Companion Specification

June 14, 2019

Author(s)

Ryan Fisher, Guodong Shao

Smart Manufacturing (SM) is the future of the manufacturing industry. Seamless, accurate, and fast connection and communications among devices are critical for...

INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO COMBAT HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS USING STANDARDS DEVELOPED THROUGH INDUSTRY AND U.S. FEDERAL COLLABORATION

June 14, 2019

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller, Thomas C. Larason, Dianne L. Poster, Yaw S. Obeng, Mike Postek, Richard Martinello

Nationwide, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) infect one in every 25 hospital patients, account for more than 99,000 deaths and increase medical costs by...

A Collaborative Work Cell Testbed for Industrial Wireless Communications - The Baseline Design

June 14, 2019

Author(s)

Yongkang Liu, Rick Candell, Mohamed Hany, Karl Montgomery

The work cell is an essential industrial environment for testing wireless communication techniques in factory automation processes. A new testbed was recently...

Bearing Metrics for Health Monitoring of Machine Tool Linear Axes

June 13, 2019

Author(s)

Gregory W. Vogl, Brian C. Galfond, Jordan Jameson

Diagnostics and prognostics of rotating machinery ball bearings is quite mature with an abundance of available methods and algorithms. However, extending these...

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