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Conferences

Calibration and Analysis of Tactile Sensors as Slip Detectors

September 13, 2018

Author(s)

Karl Van Wyk, Joseph A. Falco

The existence of tactile afferents sensitive to slip-related mechanical transients in the human hand augments the robustness of grasping through secondary force...

Sensor Placement and Detection Coverage for Spectrum Sharing in the 3.5 GHz Band

September 12, 2018

Author(s)

Mudumbai Ranganathan, Anirudha Sahoo, Thao T. Nguyen, Timothy Hall

Reference Materials and Proficiency Testing for Validating X-Ray Powder Diffraction Measurements of Cement Composition

September 11, 2018

Author(s)

Paul E. Stutzman

Validation of quantitative X-ray powder diffraction measurements traditionally involved compounding test mixtures of known phase compositions. Validation is...

Extending Portico HLA to Federations of Federations with Transport Layer Security

September 11, 2018

Author(s)

Thomas Roth, Martin Burns, Tim Pokorny

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to connect and manage an unprecedented number of heterogeneous devices that are not designed to interoperate as a system...

MEMS non-absorbing electromagnetic power sensor employing the effect of radiation pressure

September 8, 2018

Author(s)

Ivan Ryger, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, Paul A. Williams, Gordon A. Shaw, Matt Simons, Christopher L. Holloway, John H. Lehman

We demonstrate a compact electromagnetic power sensor based on force effects of electromagnetic radiation onto a highly reflective mirror surface. Unlike the...

Mechanical characterization of planar springs for compact radiation pressure power meters

September 7, 2018

Author(s)

Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Ivan Ryger, Paul A. Williams, Kyle A. Rogers, Daniel W. Rahn, Andrew J. Walowitz, John H. Lehman

Counter to conventional methods of measuring laser optical power, radiation pressure-based power meters operate by reflection rather than absorption. This...

Managed Blockchain Based Cryptocurrencies with Consensus Enforced Rules and Transparency

September 6, 2018

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell

Blockchain based cryptocurrencies are usually unmanaged, distributed, consensus-based systems in which no single entity has control. Managed cryptocurrencies...

A Non-destructive Method for Characterizing Surface Mechanical Property of Polymeric Coatings under Accelerated Weathering

September 6, 2018

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, Hsiang C. Hsueh

The surface of coatings and plastics is the first target in any degradation process initiated by ultraviolet (UV) radiation or mechanical stress (via scratch...

On Mitigation Inefficiency of Selfish Investment in Network Recovery from High Loss SIS Infection

September 6, 2018

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

This paper reports on quantification and mitigation of the inefficiency of selfish investment in network recovery from Susceptible Infected Susceptible (SIS)...

Quantifying Information Exposure in Internet Routing

September 6, 2018

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell, Assane Gueye, Christopher A. Schanzle

Data sent over the Internet can be monitored and manipulated by intermediate entities in the data path from the source to the destination. For unencrypted...

Dynamic Job Replication for Balancing Fault Tolerance, Latency, and Economic Efficiency: Work in Progress

September 6, 2018

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

Recent research has demonstrated benefits of replication of requests with canceling, which initiates multiple concurrent replicas of a request and uses the...

A High Dynamic Range Imaging Method for the Characterization of Periodic Errors in Diffraction Gratings

September 4, 2018

Author(s)

Sofia C. Corzo Garcia, Muhammad I. Afzal, Benjamin Kidder, michelle Grigas, Ulf Griesmann

We report on recent progress in the development of our focal plane imaging system for the detection and characterization of small fabrication errors in...

Characterization and operation optimization of large field-of-view optical interferometers using binary pseudorandom array test standards

September 4, 2018

Author(s)

Valeriy V. Yashchuk, Sergey Babin, Stefano Cabrini, Ulf Griesmann, Ian Lacey, Keiko Munechika, Carlos Pina Hernandez, Quandou Wang

Recently, a technique for calibration of the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) of a broad variety of metrology instrumentation has been established. The...

Toward a Classification of Partitioning Operations for Standardization of Geometrical Product Specifications and Verification

September 3, 2018

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan, Nabil Anwer, Paul J. Scott

Partitioning is one of the four major operations used in the international standards issued by ISO/TC 213 on geometrical product specifications and...

Tolerancing and Verification of Additive Manufactured Lattice with Supplemental Surfaces

September 3, 2018

Author(s)

Gaurav Ameta, Jason C. Fox, Paul W. Witherell

Additive manufacturing (AM) has enabled the production of complex geometries such as conformal lattices, topology optimized shapes, and organic structures...

A Brief Analysis of Recent ISO Tolerancing Standards and Their Potential Impact on Digitization of Manufacturing

September 3, 2018

Author(s)

Ed Morse, Craig M. Shakarji, Vijay Srinivasan

The publication of the latest edition of ISO 1101 in 2017 is a landmark event in the development of ISO tolerancing standards. It represents an important...

Performance Analysis of the 2017 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

September 2, 2018

Author(s)

Omid Sadjadi, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah, Craig Greenberg, Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero

The 2017 NIST language recognition evaluation (LRE) was held in the autumn of 2017. Similar to the past LRE's, the basic task in LRE17 was language detection...

Network Formation by Contagion Averse Agents: Modeling Bounded Rationality with Logit Learning

August 31, 2018

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

Economic and convenience benefits of interconnectivity drive current explosive emergence and growth of networked systems. However, as recent catastrophic...

RHEOLOGICAL CONTROL OF 3D PRINTED CEMENT PASTE

August 30, 2018

Author(s)

Scott Z. Jones, Dale P. Bentz, Nicos Martys, William L. George, Austin Thomas

On Algorithms and Heuristics for Constrained Least-Squares Fitting of Circles and Spheres to Support Standards

August 28, 2018

Author(s)

Craig M. Shakarji, Vijay Srinivasan

Constrained least-squares fitting has gained considerable popularity among national and international standards committees as the default method for...

Quantum Probability Estimation for Randomness with Quantum Side Information

August 27, 2018

Author(s)

Emanuel Knill, yanbao zhang, Honghao Fu, Peter L. Bierhorst

No abstract, this is an extended abstract itself, three pages.

The Reach and Impact of the Remote Frequency and Time Calibration Program at NIST

August 27, 2018

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has offered and provided remote frequency and time calibration services to customers for more than...

Measurement of Radio-Frequency Radiation Pressure: The Quest for a NEW SI Traceable Power Measurement

August 27, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Ivan Ryger, John H. Lehman

In the quest for a new SI traceable power measurement, we performed measurements of the radiation pressure of a radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic field...

Statistical Considerations for Total Isotropic Sensitivity of Wireless Devices Measured in Reverberation Chambers

August 26, 2018

Author(s)

Rob Horansky, Thomas B. Meurs, Chih-Ming Wang, Maria G. Becker, Kate Remley

The vast array of wireless device form factors being developed for internet-of-things applications necessitates a flexible test environment for determining...

The Industrial Ontologies Foundry Proof-of-Concept Project

August 26, 2018

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Evan K. Wallace, Dimitris Kiritsis, Barry Smith, Chris Will

The current industrial revolution is said to be driven by the digitization of manu-facturing that exploits connected information across all aspects of...

SELF-IMPROVING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

August 26, 2018

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Zhuo Yang, Douglas Eddy, Sundar Krishnamurty

The current AM development environment is far from being mature. Both software applications and workflow management tools are very limited due to the lack of...

High-resolution near-field imaging and far-fieldantenna measurements with atomic sensors

August 26, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Matt Simons, Dave Anderson, Georg Raithel

—Measurements of radio-frequency (RF) electric fields using atomic sensors based on quantum-optical spectroscopy of Rydberg states in vapors has garnered...

Development and Applications of a Fiber-Coupled Atom-Based Electric Field Probe

August 26, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Matt Simons, Josh Gordon

We are developing a fundamentally new atom-based approach for electric (E) field measurements. This new approach will lead to a self-calibrated, SI traceable, E...

TOWARDS MAKING NIST-QUALITY MEASUREMENTS OF RADIATION AND RADIOACTIVITY USING COMMERCIAL ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS

August 25, 2018

Author(s)

Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Denis E. Bergeron

Precision measurements of radiation and radioactivity are carried out in laboratories across the US for many important applications: to make sure the tens of...

A SUPER-METAMODELLING FRAMEWORK TO OPTIMIZE SYSTEM PREDICTABILITY

August 25, 2018

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Douglas Eddy, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse

Statistical metamodels can robustly predict manufacturing process and engineering systems design results. Various techniques, such as Kriging, polynomial...

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