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Towards Development of an ISO Container to Spreader Bar Sensor System

June 12, 2007
Author(s)
Richard J. Norcross
This report describes a sensor system that determines the relative pose between a crane spreader and an ISO container. The sensor system supports efforts to transfer cargo between ships in high sea states under ONR s HiCASS program. The sensor system is a

Objective Test and Performance Measurement of Automotive Crash Warning Systems

April 10, 2007
Author(s)
Sandor S. Szabo, Richard J. Norcross, Joseph A. Falco
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under an interagency agreement with the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), is supporting development of objective test and measurement procedures for vehicle-based warning systems

Training and Optimization of Operating Parameters for Flash LADAR Cameras

April 10, 2007
Author(s)
M Price, J Kenney, Roger D. Eastman, Tsai H. Hong
Flash LADAR cameras based on continuous-wave, time-of-flight range measurement deliver fast 3D imaging for robot applications including mapping, localization, obstacle detection and object recognition. The accuracy of the range values produced depends on

A Novel Approach to Measuring Structural Similarity Between XML Documents

April 1, 2007
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, B Jeong, Dongjin Lee, Hyunbo Cho
Measuring structural similarity between XML documents has become a key component in various applications, including XML mining, schema matching, and web service discovery, among others. This paper presents a novel structural similarity measure

Segmentation and Classification of Human Forms Using LADAR Data

March 14, 2007
Author(s)
James S. Albus, Tsai Hong Hong, Tommy Chang
High resolution LADAR images of scenes containing human forms have been segmented and algorithms developed for recognizing human forms in various positions in both cluttered and uncluttered scenes. Registration of LADAR and color CCD images enhance the

MOSS - Material Off-Shore Sourcing

February 13, 2007
Author(s)
Peter O. Denno
The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) Project, Customs / Logistics Strategies to Strengthen Long Distance Supply Chains, seeks to improve processes and information communication employed in intercontinental trade lanes. At the time this paper was

NIST Focuses Attention on Clinical Informatics and Healthcare IT Standards

February 1, 2007
Author(s)
Sharon J. Kemmerer
NIST has recently established an institutional membership with the Health Industy Business Communication Council (HIBCC) - the ANSI-accredited standards development organization. HIBCC featured a welcoming article in their Sept-Dec 2005 magazine that

On Capturing Information Requirements in Process Specifications

February 1, 2007
Author(s)
Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Peter O. Denno
Historically, business process models refer only to large information sets, and database models and messaging standards provide models of all information about the related business entities that might be used in any of several business processes. In short

Performance Analysis of Symbolic Road Recognition for On-Road Driving

January 31, 2007
Author(s)
Mike Foedisch, Craig I. Schlenoff, Rajmohan Madhavan
Previous approaches to road sensing, namely road detection were based on segmenting the sensor data, i.e. color camera image, into road and non-road areas. Performance evaluation for such algorithms could be performed in a relatively straightforward

Performance Evaluation of Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems

January 31, 2007
Author(s)
Jack J. Ference, Sandor S. Szabo, Wassim G. Najm
This paper describes a program to develop and test an integrated crash warning system that addresses rear-end, lane change, and roadway departure crashes for passenger cars and heavy commercial trucks. One of the goals of this program is to facilitate the

Technology Evaluations and Performance Metrics for Soldier-Worn Sensors for ASSIST

January 31, 2007
Author(s)
Brian Weiss, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael O. Shneier, Ann Virts
The DARPA-funded Advanced Soldier Sensor Information Systems and Technology (ASSIST) project is aimed at developing soldier-worn sensors to increase a soldier s battlefield awareness during humanitarian and combat missions, provide them with data

Traversability Metrics for Urban Search and Rescue Robots on Rough Terrain

January 31, 2007
Author(s)
V Molino, Rajmohan Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, Anthony J. Downs, Adam S. Jacoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky
Rough terrain, such as the rubble that we would expect to find in urban disaster areas, will likely impede robot mobility. The goal of this paper is to find methods for quantifying the difficulty a robot should encounter traversing a region of rough

DHS/NIST Response Robot Evaluation Exercises

January 8, 2007
Author(s)
Adam S. Jacoff, Elena R. Messina
The Department of Homeland Security, through the Science and Technology Directorate Standards Program, is developing performance standards for robots applied to urban search and rescue (US&R). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is

Testing and Monitoring E-Business Using the Event-Driven Test Scripting Language

January 1, 2007
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, J Durand, Jungyub Woo, M Martin
This paper addresses challenges associated with conformance and interoperability testing of today's e-business technologies and proposes a new approach that improves on existing, test scripting languages and operation modes. A test model and scripting are

A Roadmap For Metrology Interoperability

December 4, 2006
Author(s)
John A. Horst, S McSpadden
An International Metrology Interoperability Summit (IMIS) was held March 28 - 30, 2006 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. Workers and decision makers in a variety of dimensional metrology corporations and organizations worldwide participated. The first day

Applications of a 3D Range Camera Towards Healthcare Mobility Aids

October 3, 2006
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, Peter Russo, James S. Albus, Tsai Hong Hong, Rajmohan Madhavan
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently studied a new 3D range camera for use on mobile robots. These robots have potential applications in manufacturing, healthcare and perhaps several other service related areas beyond the

Unstructured Facility Navigation by Applying the NIST 4D/RCS Architecture

September 5, 2006
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai Hong Hong, Tommy Chang, William P. Shackleford, Michael O. Shneier
The National Institute of Standards and Technology s (NIST) Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) is working with the material handling industry, specifically on automated guided vehicles, to develop next generation vehicles. ISD is also a participant in the

Message Validation with a Semantic Reasoning Tools

September 1, 2006
Author(s)
Peter O. Denno, Nenad Ivezic
This paper describes challenges encountered in the development of a tool to validate OASIS UBL-based (Universal Business Language) messages. The software tool is ontology-based, using first-order logic and parts of the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO
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