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Summary of the October 2020 Terminology Harmonization Meeting

March 31, 2021
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff
On October 26, 2020, the Industrial Activities Board (IAB) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) organized a virtual Terminology Harmonization Meeting in conjunction with the Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Conference. The goal of the

Agile Robotics for Industrial Applications: Editorial

March 24, 2021
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff, Zeid Kootbally, Erez Karpas
Advances in automation have provided for sustained productivity increases and manufacturing growth over the past decade. Sustaining this growth will require automation to become more agile and flexible, enabling the automation of tasks that require a high

Recent Advances in Industrial Robotics - Introduction

March 15, 2021
Author(s)
Satyandra K. Gupta, Venkat Krovi, Craig I. Schlenoff
Manufacturing is the staged transformation of raw materials into finished goods (using human-labor, machines, tools, mechanical, chemical or biological processing) on a large scale. The production-line represents a key innovation of the industrial

An Integrated Set of XML Tools – User Guide

December 16, 2020
Author(s)
Thomas R. Kramer, Zeid Kootbally, Craig Schlenoff
This user guide describes an integrated set of C++ software tools for manipulating XML (eXtensible Markup Language) schemas and XML instance files. The tools are: - xmlSchemaParser - parses and reformats XML schema files, prints type derivation hierarchies

Runtime Verification of the ARIAC Competition: Can a Robot be Agile and Safe at the Same Time?

November 27, 2020
Author(s)
Angelo Ferrando, Zeid Kootbally, Pavlo Piliptchak, Rafael Cardoso, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael Fisher
ARIAC (Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition) is a robotic competition which aims to advance robotic agility in industry. Participants in this competition are required to implement a robot control system to overcome agility challenges in a

Continued Growth of IEEE RAS Standards Efforts

September 10, 2020
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff
This has been a very eventful quarter for standardization efforts within the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Even the virtual nature of the 2020 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) could not slow down the momentum of the

Status of IEEE RAS Standardization Efforts

June 10, 2020
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's (RAS) standards study and working groups are strong and growing stronger. As of the time of this publication, we have two published standards, six working groups actively developing future standards, and one study

IEEE RAS Standards Strategy Update

June 30, 2019
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff
On September 30, 2018, the Industrial Activities Board (IAB) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) organized a Standards Strategy Meeting in conjunction with the Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Conference in Madrid, Spain. The goal of the

The Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition

December 3, 2018
Author(s)
William Harrison, Anthony Downs, Craig I. Schlenoff
The Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC) is an annual simulation-based competition initiated in 2017. The competition challenges teams to design industrial robotic system control code to function in a dynamic environment. Each team

Enabling Robot Agility in Manufacturing Kitting Applications

March 14, 2018
Author(s)
Zeid Kootbally, Craig I. Schlenoff, Brian Antonishek, Frederick M. Proctor, Thomas Kramer, William Harrison, Satyandra K. Gupta
For the most part, robots perform best in highly structured environments, where objects are in well-known, predictable loca-tions. Another way to describe this is that robots are not considered agile. But, in order for them to be useful to small manu

Introduction: Special Issue on Enabling Robot Autonomy

March 14, 2018
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Henrik I. Christensen
Today's state-of-the-art robots are capable of sub-millimeter movement accuracy when performing highly repeatable tasks. They perform extremely well in highly structured environments, where objects are in well-known, predictable locations. However, robots

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) ontologies for modeling in a robotic kitting workstation. The new technical idea for the APRS