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Uncertainty Analysis of the Dual-Lift Use Case for the Industrial Wireless Testbed

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Author(s)

Karl Montgomery, Rick Candell, Mohamed Hany

Abstract

This report serves to characterize the uncertainty of measurements for key performance indicators (KPIs) used to measure the physical and network performance of the NIST industrial wireless dual-lift testbed. A review of the methods used to determine uncertainty is presented. We use the method known as the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) to calculate the uncertainty values for each measurement. A description of the dual-lift use case and the KPIs are presented. The resulting expanded uncertainty values are calculated for the KPIs, which are the positional Cartesian error between the leader and follower robots, and the latency of the data packets associated with the informational transactions of the leader and follower's control loop. It is concluded that the measurement systems used in the dual-lift use case have relatively small uncertainty values for the detection of latency perturbations in the real-time control application implemented on the testbed.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 2270
Report Number
2270
NIST Pub Series
Technical Note (NIST TN)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2270
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Keywords

Industrial wireless communications, Measurement uncertainty, Manufacturing
Network test and measurement and Metrology

Citation

Montgomery, K. , Candell, R. and Hany, M. (2023), Uncertainty Analysis of the Dual-Lift Use Case for the Industrial Wireless Testbed, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2270, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=956530 (Accessed October 11, 2025)

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Created October 2, 2023
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