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Variances of Cylinder Parameters Fitted to Range Data

September 26, 2012
Author(s)
Marek Franaszek
Industrial pipelines are frequently scanned with 3D imaging systems (e.g., LADAR) and cylinders are fitted to the collected data. Then, the fitted as-built model is compared with the as-designed model. Meaningful comparison between the two models requires

Proposal for a standardized test artifact for additive manufacturing machines and processes

August 15, 2012
Author(s)
Shawn P. Moylan, John A. Slotwinski, April L. Cooke, Kevin K. Jurrens, M A. Donmez
Historically, standardized test parts are used to quantitatively evaluate the performance of a machine or process. While several different additive manufacturing (AM) test parts have been developed in the past, there are no current standard test parts. We

Advancing the State of Urban Search and Rescue Robotics through the RoboCupRescue Robot League Competition

July 16, 2012
Author(s)
Raymond K. Sheh, Adam S. Jacoff, Ann M. Virts, Tetsuya Kimura, Johannes Pellenz, Soren Schwertfeger, Jackrit Suthakorn
The RoboCupRescue Robot League is an international competition that has grown to be an effective driver for the dissemination of solutions to the challenges posed by Urban Search and Rescue Robotics and accelerated the development of the performance

Next Generation Packaging, Kitting, and Palletizing: Can one robot do it all?

June 28, 2012
Author(s)
Rajmohan (. Madhavan, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Craig I. Schlenoff
A seminar titled "Next Generation Packaging, Kitting, and Palletizing: Can one robot do it all?" was held on February 9th 2012 at the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) MODEX show in Atlanta, GA. The seminar primarily focused on whether systems

Safe Control of Manufacturing Vehicles Research Towards Standard Test Methods

June 28, 2012
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, William P. Shackleford, Geraldine S. Cheok, Kamel S. Saidi
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Intelligent Systems Division has been researching several areas leading to safe control of manufacturing vehicles to improve AGV safety standards. The research areas include: - Automated guided vehicle

USARSim/ROS: A Combined Framework for Robotic Control and Simulation

June 20, 2012
Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Zeid Kootbally
The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been steadily gaining popularity among robotics researchers as an open source framework for robot control. The Unified System for Automation and Robot Simulation (USARSim) has been used for many years by robotics

Technology Readiness Levels for Randomized Bin Picking

June 13, 2012
Author(s)
Jeremy A. Marvel, Roger D. Eastman, Geraldine S. Cheok, Kamel S. Saidi, Tsai Hong Hong, Elena R. Messina
A proposal for the utilization of Technology Readiness Levels to the application of unstructured bin picking is discussed. A special session was held during the 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop to discuss the challenges and

Dimensional Metrology for Micro/Meso-Scale Manufacturing

June 5, 2012
Author(s)
Shawn P. Moylan
The small sizes, range of shapes and sizes, and low absolute tolerances present unique challenges to geometric dimensional metrology at the micro/meso-scale. This chapter provides and overview of the most common methods used for geometric dimensional

A Review of Test Artifacts for Additive Manufacturing

May 24, 2012
Author(s)
Shawn P. Moylan, April L. Cooke, Kevin K. Jurrens, John A. Slotwinski, M A. Donmez
A standardized test part can be used to quantitatively evaluate the performance of a machine or process. This document reviews existing test artifacts used to characterize additive processes that are reported in the literature. Several aspects of the test

Using Competitions to Advance the Development of Standard Test Methods for Response Robots

May 17, 2012
Author(s)
Adam S. Jacoff, Raymond Sheh, Ann Virts, Tetsuya Kimura, Johannes Pellenz, Soren Schwertfeger, Jackrit Suthakorn
Competitions are an effective aid to the development and dissemination of standard test methods, especially in rapidly developing, highly varied fields such as Urban Search and Rescue robotics. By exposing the development process to highly developmental

Ground Truth for Evaluating 6 Degrees of Freedom Pose Estimation Systems

March 28, 2012
Author(s)
Jeremy Marvel, Joseph Falco, Tsai H. Hong
Systems developed to estimate poses of objects in 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) Cartesian space (X, Y, and Z coordinates plus roll, pitch, and yaw) are reliant on the vendors' own processes to determine performance and measurement accuracy. These practices

2011 Solutions in Perception Challenge Performance Metrics and Results

March 22, 2012
Author(s)
Jeremy Marvel, Tsai H. Hong, Elena R. Messina
The 2011 Solutions in Perception Challenge (SPC) presented an international collection of teams with the opportunity to develop algorithms that could positively identify and accurately locate in space an arbitrary collection of artifacts. Researchers at

Emergency Response Robot Evaluation Exercise

March 22, 2012
Author(s)
Adam S. Jacoff, Hui-Min Huang, Ann Virts, Anthony Downs, Raymond Sheh
More than 60 robot test methods are being developed by a team lead by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with the sponsorship of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These test methods are being specified and standardized

Functional Requirements of a Model for Kitting Plans

March 22, 2012
Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Zeid Kootbally, Thomas R. Kramer, Rajmohan Madhavan, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael O. Shneier
Industrial assembly of manufactured products is often performed by first bringing parts together in a kit and then moving the kit to the assembly area where the parts are used to assemble products. Kitting, the process of building kits, has not yet been

Performance Evaluation of Robotic Knowledge Representation (PERK)

March 22, 2012
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff, Sebti Foufou, Stephen B. Balakirsky
In this paper, we explore some ways in which symbolic knowledge representations have been evaluated in the past and provide some thoughts on what should be considered when applying and evaluating these types of knowledge representations for real-time

Evaluation of Proposed Test Artifacts for Five-Axis Machine Tools

November 18, 2011
Author(s)
Shawn P. Moylan, David Blumenfeld, Michael L. McGlauflin, Ronnie R. Fesperman Jr., M A. Donmez
Machining of a test artifact is an attractive method of evaluating the performance of a machine tool because the tests are often quick and do not require special instrumentation. An appropriate artifact should be complex enough to assess a machine's

Contests in China Put Next-Gen Robot Technologies to the Test

September 13, 2011
Author(s)
Michael E. Newman, Stephen B. Balakirsky
This article describes the 2011 Robot Challenge that took place at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shanghai, China. The quartet of contests-the Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition (VMAC), the Mobile Microrobotics
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