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Conferences

Establishing Traceability for SOLT Calibration Kits*

November 28, 2017

Author(s)

Ronald A. Ginley

Establishing traceability for a measurement is very important so that the results of the measurement can be used in a common framework for comparisons and...

Rydberg Atom Electric-Field Metrology

November 28, 2017

Author(s)

Joshua A. Gordon, Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons

We present a technique which shows great promise for realizing an atomic standard measurement of RF fields that is intrinsically calibrated, directly linked to...

Kicking the Tires of the NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework Part 2*

November 27, 2017

Author(s)

Ronald A. Ginley

Traceability of a measurement requires two parts. An unbroken chain of measurements and uncertainties for each link of the chain. The NIST Microwave Uncertainty...

Towards a Hybrid Human-Computer Scientific Information Extraction Pipeline

November 27, 2017

Author(s)

Roselyne B. Tchoua, Kyle Chard, Debra Audus, Logan T. Ward, Lequieu Joshua, Juan J. de Pablo, Ian Foster

The emerging field of materials informatics has the potential to greatly reduce time-to-market and development costs for new materials. The success of such...

Observation of Triplet Level Crossing in Single Crystal Organic Transistors Using Magnetoconductance

November 26, 2017

Author(s)

Emily G. Bittle, Hyuk-Jae Jang, Qin Zhang, Curt A. Richter, David J. Gundlach

Organic semiconductors provide a unique set of properties that provide for the manufacture of large and flexible LED screens and photovoltaic arrays. In order...

3.5 GHz Waveform Generation for Testing and Development of ESC Detectors

November 17, 2017

Author(s)

Raied M. Caromi, John Mink, Michael R. Souryal

Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) sensors will be used in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) to detect and report the presence of federal...

Modeling the Internet of Things (& People): A Foundational Approach

November 16, 2017

Author(s)

Spencer J. Breiner, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ram D. Sriram

This talk provides an overview of recent NIST work in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain in the Information Technology Laboratory. We begin with some examples...

Instrumented impact testing of miniaturized Charpy specimens of AM Ti 6Al 4V

November 16, 2017

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Nikolas W. Hrabe

An investigation on the impact toughness properties of wrought and additively-manufactured (AM) Ti 6Al 4V was conducted at NIST Boulder, by means of...

GLOBAL INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON OF GONIOPHOTOMETER MEASUREMENTS USING LIGHT EMITTING DIODE ARTEFACTS

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno

The International Energy Agencys (IEA) Energy Efficient End-use Equipment (4E) Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Annex is conducting a global interlaboratory...

VISION EXPERIMENT ON CHROMA SATURATION PREFERENCE IN DIFFERENT HUES

November 15, 2017

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno, Youngshin Kwak, Semin Oh

Increase of chroma is known to be a major factor for color quality preference in lighting, and gamut area measures are often used to evaluate preference aspects...

VISION EXPERIMENT ON PERCEPTION OF CORRELATED COLOR TEMPERATURE

November 14, 2017

Author(s)

Yoshi Ohno, Hyeyoung Ha, Youngshin Kwak

The correlated color temperature (CCT) is defined by the closest point on the Planckian locus from a light source on the (now obsolete) CIE 1960 (u, v) diagram...

PRELIMINARY STUDY ON SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SKIN COLOR UNDER CIRCULATORY DYSFUNCTION USING ARTIFICIAL SKIN SAMPLES

November 14, 2017

Author(s)

Yoshi Ohno, Yuki Akizuki

To assist development of appropriate light sources to diagnose circulatory dysfunction conditions effectively based on the color appearance of patient's skin...

Experiments to Quantify Firebrand Production from Roofing Assembly Combustion

November 12, 2017

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Tomohiro Naruse

Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. One example often in the international media reports are wildfires that spread into communities...

Investigation on Firebrand Generation from Reduced-scale Mock-ups

November 12, 2017

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Firebrands generated from structures are known to be a source of rapid flame spread within communities in large outdoor fires, such as wildland-urban (WUI)...

Smart Manufacturing and The Promotion of Artificially-Intelligent Human-Robot Collaborations in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises

November 11, 2017

Author(s)

Megan Zimmerman, Jeremy Marvel

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing new metrology toward the evaluation and assurance of collaborative robot...

Convexity and Optimality Conditions for Constrained Least-Squares Fitting of Planes and Parallel Planes to Establish Datums

November 9, 2017

Author(s)

Craig M. Shakarji, Vijay Srinivasan

This paper addresses some important theoretical issues for constrained least-squares fitting of planes and parallel planes to a set of input points. In...

Characterization for an Industrial Wireless Network in a Gas Sensing Scenario

November 8, 2017

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell

Employing wireless communications in gas sensing and air quality monitoring is extremely essential in many industrial scenarios where wired networks cannot...

Dimensional measurement sensitivity analysis for a MoSi photomask using DUV reflection scatterfield imaging microscopy

November 8, 2017

Author(s)

Martin Y. Sohn, Dong R. Lee, Bryan M. Barnes, Ronald G. Dixson, Richard M. Silver, Sang-Soo Choi

A critical challenge in optical critical dimension metrology, where requires high measurement sensitivity as well as high throughput, is the dimensional...

Overview of an Ontology-based Approach for Kit Building Applications

November 8, 2017

Author(s)

Zeid Kootbally, Thomas Kramer, Craig I. Schlenoff, Satyandra K. Gupta

The Agility Performance of Robotic Systems (APRS) project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is using Web Ontology Language (OWL)...

Tolerances and Uncertainty in Robotic Systems

November 8, 2017

Author(s)

Frederick M. Proctor, John L. Michaloski, Marek Franaszek

The ability to be programmed for a wide range of tasks is what differentiates robots from dedicated automation. Consequently, robots can be faced with often...

Design Patterns for Visualization-Based Tools in Sustainable Product Design

November 5, 2017

Author(s)

Deverajan Ramanujan, William Z. Bernstein, Karthik Ramani

Most design activities involve exploring and comparing similar existing designs. Thus, adopting an eco-conscious approach in the design exploration process can...

Effect of the Additive Manufacturing Process on Cutting Forces in Hybrid Manufacturing

November 3, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Gomez, Andrew Honeycutt, Jarred C. Heigel, Tony Schmitz

Powder bed fusion (PBF) enables metal components with complex geometries to be made via additive manufacturing (AM). Disadvantages of AM are rougher surface...

Method to Determine the Center of a Contrast Target from Terrestrial Laser Scanner Data

November 3, 2017

Author(s)

Prem K. Rachakonda, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer, Ling Wang

Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) are instruments that can measure 3D coordinates of objects at high speed resulting in high density 3D point cloud data without...

Impact Mechanics Parameteric Studies with Application to Dynamic Force Calibration

November 3, 2017

Author(s)

Nicholas Vlajic, Akobuije Chijioke

National Measurement Institutions have developed apparatuses that rely on impacting bodies to realize time-varying forces for dynamic calibration of force...

The Iterated Random Function Problem

November 1, 2017

Author(s)

Ritam Bhaumik, Nilanjan Datta, Avijit Dutta, Nicky Mouha, Mrudil Nandi

At CRYPTO 2015, Minaud and Seurin introduced and studied the iterated random permutation problem, which is to distinguish the r-th iterate of a random...

Challenges in measuring spherical geometry using terrestrial laser scanners

November 1, 2017

Author(s)

Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Prem K. Rachakonda, Katharine M. Shilling, Vincent D. Lee, Daniel S. Sawyer, Geraldine S. Cheok, Luc Cournoyer

Terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) measure 3D coordinates in a scene by recording the range, the azimuth angle, and elevation angle of discrete points on target...

Localized fire tests on steel beams with different end restraints

November 1, 2017

Author(s)

Selvarajah Ramesh, Mina S. Seif, Lisa Choe

Two 6.2-m span I-shaped structural steel beams were tested under combined structural and open flame localized fire loads. Two different support conditions for...

Interoperability Test for IEC 61850-9-2 Standard-based Merging Units

October 30, 2017

Author(s)

Yuyin Song, Gerald J. FitzPatrick, Kang B. Lee, Yixin Zhang

Merging units (MUs) sample alternating current (AC) in one or multiple phases and convert these analog voltage and current signals to digital values and...

Propagation of orientation uncertainty of 3D rigid object to its points

October 28, 2017

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Geraldine Cheok

If a CAD model of a rigid object is available, the location of any point on an object can be derived from the measured 6DOF pose of the object. However, the...

Towards Probabilistic Identification of Zero-day Attack Paths

October 24, 2017

Author(s)

Xiaoyan Sun, Dai Jun, Peng Liu, Anoop Singhal, John Yen

Zero-day attacks continue to challenge the enterprise network security defense. A zero-day attack path is formed when a multi- step attack contains one or more...

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