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Co-X Panel Discussion

February 4, 2011
Author(s)
Elena R. Messina, Brian A. Weiss, Rajmohan Madhavan
Robots as co-protectors, co-inhabitants, co-workers, co-integrants, or more generically, "Co-X" will improve effectiveness, efficiency, safety, security, and improve quality of life in the coming years. In-keeping with the theme of PerMIS'10, which

Mixed Pallet Stacking: An Overview and Summary of the 2010 PerMIS Special Session

February 4, 2011
Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Henrik I. Christensen, Thomas R. Kramer, Pushkar Kolhe, Frederick M. Proctor
Stacking boxes of various sizes and contents on pallets (i.e. making mixed pallets) is a primary method of preparing goods for shipment from a warehouse to a store or other distant site. A special session of the 2010 PERMIS workshop was held to examine

Metrics for Mixed Pallet Stacking

January 31, 2011
Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Thomas R. Kramer, Frederick M. Proctor
Stacking boxes of various sizes and contents on pallets (i.e. making mixed pallets) is a primary method of preparing goods for shipment from a warehouse to a store or other distant site. Many billions of dollars are spent each year in preparing, shipping

Maintainers Manual for Version 2.2.1 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite

October 25, 2010
Author(s)
Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst
This manual is a maintainers manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.2.1. DMIS (Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard) is a language for writing programs for coordinate measuring machines and other dimensional measurement equipment. The manual is

System Builders Manual for Version 2.2.1 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite

October 25, 2010
Author(s)
Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst
This manual is a system builders manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.2.1. DMIS (Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard) is a language for writing programs for coordinate measuring machines and other dimensional measurement equipment. The

Users Manual for Version 2.2.1 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite

October 25, 2010
Author(s)
Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst
This manual is a users manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.2.1. DMIS (Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard) is a language for writing programs for coordinate measuring machines and other dimensional measurement equipment. The manual

Lessons Learned in Evaluating DARPA Advanced Military Technologies

October 15, 2010
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff, Brian A. Weiss, Michelle P. Steves
For the past six years, personnel from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have served as the Independent Evaluation Team (IET) for two major DARPA programs. DARPA ASSIST (Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology) is

Constraint Generator User's Guide

September 30, 2010
Author(s)
Salifou Sidi Malick, Matthew Molek, Katherine C. Morris
This document describes the Constraint Generator. The Constraint Generator is a tool developed at NIST to automate the generation of schematron scripts for an advance validation of XML documents. The tool allows the user to open an XSD schema, view a tree

MTCONNECT-BASED KAIZEN FOR MACHINE TOOL PROCESSES

August 18, 2010
Author(s)
Byeong Eon Lee, John L. Michaloski, Frederick M. Proctor, Sid Venkatesh, Nils Bengtsson
Kaizen is a part of Lean Manufacturing that focuses on the concept of continuous improvement to reduce waste. For implementing Kaizen on the factory floor, comprehensive and efficient tools for data acquisition, process measurement and analysis are

Metadata for Long Term Preservation of Product Data

August 2, 2010
Author(s)
Joshua Lubell
Product data can usefully be defined as structured information about objects which are produced by industrial and business processes. In terms of information types, data formats, usage, and lifespan, product data is both complex and diverse, encompassing

Ontological Product Modeling for Collaborative Design

July 22, 2010
Author(s)
Conrad E. Bock, XuanFang Zha, Hyo-won Suh, Jae H. Lee
This paper shows how to combine ontological and model-based techniques in languages that facilitate collaborative design exploration. The proposed approach uses ontology to capture alternative designs and incremental refinements that meet requirements and

2009 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'09) Workshop

July 9, 2010
Author(s)
Rajmohan Madhavan, Elena R. Messina
The Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) workshop is dedicated to defining measures and methodologies of evaluating performance of intelligent systems. The main theme of the ninth iteration of the workshop, PerMIS'09, addressed the question

Testing Interoperability Standards - A Test Case Generation Methodology

June 16, 2010
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Jungyub Woo
Over many years, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) built test beds to support interoperability standards development and their implementation within software applications. A general test framework has been proposed to enhance new test

A Framework for XML Schema Naming and Design Rules Development Tools

June 1, 2010
Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris
Many organizations are facing enormous challenges today in trying to integrate a wide range of software systems. These systems span the functional areas within an organization, as well as, the multitude of organizations and countries involved in a business

Single-query, Bi-directional, Lazy Roadmap Planner Applied to Car-like Robots

May 8, 2010
Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Denis Denis Dimitrov
The Single-query, Bi-directional, Lazy roadmap (SBL) algorithm successfully builds upon the traditional Probabilistic Roadmaps (PRM) approach by introducing a number of related optimizations. While these optimizations are applicable in the domain of car
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