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Evaluating The RoboCup 2009 Virtual Robot Rescue Competition

April 22, 2010
Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Stefano Carpin, Arnoud Visser
The 2009 RoboCup Competitions took place in Graz Austria in July of 2009. The Virtual Robot Rescue Competition included 11 competitors from 10 different countries. The main objective of this competition is to utilize teams of robots to perform an urban

Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems

March 31, 2010
Author(s)
Rajmohan Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, Angel P. Del Pobil
The Technical Committee on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking for Robotic and Automation Systems (TC-PEBRAS) was approved at the Technical Activities Board (TAB) meeting held at the 2009 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in

Benchmarking and Standardization of Intelligent Robotic Systems

March 18, 2010
Author(s)
Rajmohan Madhavan, R Lakaemper, Tamas Kalmar-Nagy
From mundane and repetitive tasks to assisting first responders in saving lives of victims in disaster scenarios, robots are expected to play an important role in our lives in the coming years. Despite recent advances in mobile robotic systems, lack of

Performance Measures Framework for Unmanned Systems (PerMFUS): Initial Perspective

February 18, 2010
Author(s)
Hui-Min Huang, Elena R. Messina, Adam S. Jacoff
The performance of intelligent unmanned systems (UMS) must be able to be measured to ensure that they can meet the operational requirements. A generic framework to enable capturing and organizing the performance metrics are highly desirable. In this

Complete Inspection: In-situ system to inspect 100% of micro-parts

February 1, 2010
Author(s)
Shawn P. Moylan
On-machine measurement can provide significant advantages in part metrology at the micro/meso-scale. The strengths of measurement by fringe projection techniques directly address the difficulties presented by on-machine measurement. An experimental setup

DYNAMIC PERCEPTION WORKSHOP REPORT: Requirements and Standards for Advanced Manufacturing

January 14, 2010
Author(s)
Tsai Hong Hong, Elena R. Messina, Hui-Min Huang, Michael O. Shneier, Roger D. Eastman, Jane Shi, James Wells
The Dynamic Perception workshop was intended to further the development of standardized, reproducible, and portable test methods that can advance the technology of sensors and perception systems for new, flexible robotic and automation applications in

Performance Evaluation and Metrics for Perception in Intelligent Manufacturing

December 31, 2009
Author(s)
Roger D. Eastman, Tsai H. Hong, Jane Shi, Tobias Hanning, Bala Muralikrishnan, S. S. Young, Tommy Chang
Real-time three-dimensional vision has been rapidly advancing over the past twenty years, leading to a number of successful laboratory demonstrations, including real-time visual servoing, autonomous vehicle navigation , and real-time people and vehicle

Evaluation of RoboCup Maps

December 17, 2009
Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Benjamin Balaguer, Stefano Carpin, Arnoud Visser
This paper describes the steps taken to create the score criteria aimed at measuring the quality of maps produced by teams participating in the RoboCup Rescue Virtual Robots competition. Since metrics have already been developed by a few research groups

From Simulation to Real Robots with Predictable Results: Methods and Examples

December 1, 2009
Author(s)
Stephen B. Balakirsky, Stefano Carpin, George Dimitoglou, Benjamin Balaguer
From a theoretical perspective, one may easily argue (as we will in this chapter) that simulation accelerates the algorithm development cycle. However, in practice many in the robotics development community share the sentiment that "Simula-tion is doomed

Performance Measurements Towards Improved Manufacturing Vehicle Safety

November 23, 2009
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, William P. Shackleford
In this paper, we describe the current 2D (dimensional) sensor and ideal sensor configurations if 3D imagers are mounted on manufacturing vehicles in an attempt to make them more safe. Towards the ideal sensor configuration, three experiments were
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