Sensing and perception

News and Updates

Spotlight: 3D Perception Systems

March 4, 2020

When you pick up one pencil from a pile on a table, how does your hand know where to go or what to grab? Your eyes help out. For robots to do the same, they

Projects and Programs

Measurement Science for Manufacturing Robotics

To develop and deploy measurement science, standards, and test methods that advance manufacturing robotic system performance, collaboration, agility, autonomy

Embodied AI and Data Generation for Manufacturing Robotics

Approaches categorized as “artificial intelligence” (AI) are enabling significant advances in robotics. These include symbolic logic, Bayesian statistics, and

Perception Performance of Robotic Systems

Sensors and algorithms are essential elements of any robotic system that is meant to be safe, adaptive, and productive in manufacturing environments. In the

Publications

A Standards Roadmap for 3D Imaging in Robotic Assembly Applications

March 15, 2021

Author(s)

Kamel Saidi, Geraldine Cheok

Optical and Mechanical Design of a Telescope for Lunar Spectral Irradiance Measurements from a High-Altitude Aircraft

September 8, 2020

Author(s)

Clarence Zarobila, Steven Grantham, Steven W. Brown, John T. Woodward IV, Stephen Maxwell, Dana R. Defibaugh, Thomas C. Larason, Kevin Turpie

We have designed a non-imaging telescope for measurement of the spectral irradiance of the moon. The telescope was integrated into a wing pod of a NASA ER-2

Standards for 3D Imaging Systems for Manufacturing Applications

July 31, 2020

Author(s)

Geraldine S. Cheok, Kamel S. Saidi

Proceedings of the ASTM E57 Workshop on Standards for 3D Perception Systems for Robotic Assembly Applications December 2 3, 2019

April 27, 2020

Author(s)

Kamel S. Saidi, Geraldine S. Cheok, Guixiu Qiao, John A. Horst, Marek Franaszek

A two-day workshop was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD on December 2 - 3, 2019 on the subject of defining