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Methods to evaluate 3D lidars used for automated driving

January 1, 2025
Author(s)
Prem Rachakonda, Abhilash Mane, Craig I. Schlenoff, Kamel S. Saidi
Evaluating perception sensor systems for on-road autonomous vehicles is still fraught with ambiguity due to the varying and dynamic environmental factors that these vehicles encounter. The critical safety of on-road AV operations is heavily dependent on

VOC Emission Rates from an Indoor Surface Using a Flux Chamber and PTR-MS

December 1, 2024
Author(s)
Han Huynh, Jenna Ditto, Michael Link, Dustin Poppendieck, Delphine Farmer, Marina Vance, Jonathan Abbatt
Arising from the Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air (CASA) 2022 study at the NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF), this paper presents the first evaluation of indoor surface emissions to a house measured with a surface flux chamber

Base de referencia de las capacidades de apoyo no tecnicas del IoT

October 30, 2024
Author(s)
Michael Fagan, Katerina Megas, Jeffrey Marron, Kevin Brady, Barbara Cuthill, Rebecca Herold
Las capacidades de apoyo no técnicas son acciones que realiza un fabricante o una organización de terceros en apoyo de la seguridad cibernética de un dispositivo de Internet de las cosas (IoT, por sus siglas en inglés). Esta publicación define una línea

Base Principal da Capacidade de Suporte Nao Tecnico da IoT

October 30, 2024
Author(s)
Katerina Megas, Michael Fagan, Jeffrey Marron, Kevin Brady, Barbara Cuthill, Rebbecca Herold
Recursos de suporte não técnicos são ações que um fabricante ou organização terceirizada executa em apoio à segurança cibernética de um dispositivo IoT. Esta publicação define a base principal de recursos de suporte não técnico dos fabricantes de

Economics of Digital Twins: Costs, Benefits, and Economic Decision Making

October 30, 2024
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This report examines the economics of digital twins in the manufacturing industry, including the costs, benefits, and economic decision to invest in the adoption of a digital twin. It characterizes the costs and benefits along with the circumstances under

The U.S. Plastics Recycling Economy: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities

October 30, 2024
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas, Joshua D. Kneifel, David Butry
This report builds upon NIST AMS 100-48 (Thomas 2022), which examined the economics of increased circularity in the economy, focusing on the processes, forces, and decision making that result in an unsustainable economy. This report further discusses the

Strategic Plan for the Manufacturing USA Program

October 29, 2024
Author(s)
Robert G. Rudnitsky, Clifton Ray, Said Jahanmir
This document is the triennial strategic plan for the Manufacturing USA Program, as required by the program's authorizing statute. This strategic plan addresses the role of the Manufacturing USA institutes in developing advanced manufacturing technology

Towards a Digital Twin of a Robot Workcell: Standards and Methods

October 28, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh
Digital twins are poised to improve the way products are designed, manufactured, and managed throughout their life cycle. However, implementing digital twins for small and medium manufacturers (SMM) has been a challenge mainly due to lack of resources and

Ultraviolet to Short-Wave Infrared Spectral Reflectance

October 28, 2024
Author(s)
Heather Patrick, Clarence Zarobila
The National Institute of Standards and Technology performs calibrations of spectral reflectance measurements in the ultraviolet (UV) to short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectral regions using the Robotic Optical Scattering Instrument (ROSI) and its associated

Digital Twins for Advanced Manufacturing: The Standardized Approach

October 26, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Deogratias Kibira, Simon P. Frechette
Recently, digital twins are becoming more prevalent in a wide range of industries such as manufacturing, construction, smart city, healthcare, business for various purposes including observing, predicting, optimizing, and controlling. However, because

Digital Twins for Robot Systems in Manufacturing

October 26, 2024
Author(s)
Ali Malik, Guodong Shao, Jane Tarakhovsky
The surging demand for industrial automation is propelling the use of robots, with emerging trends like autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robotic arms swiftly gaining widespread popularity. Simultaneously, a growing focus is on simplifying the

Annual Report on the U.S. Manufacturing Economy: 2024

October 25, 2024
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S. industry compares to other countries, (2) the trends in the domestic industry, and (3) the

Maximally efficient exchange in thin flow cells using density gradients

October 25, 2024
Author(s)
Megan Mitchell, Charles Majkrzak, David Hoogerheide
Flow cells are ubiquitous in laboratories and automated instrumentation and are crucial for ease of sample preparation, analyte addition, and buffer exchange. Often, the assumption that the fluids have exchanged completely in a flow cell is crucial to data

Status Report on the First Round of the Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

October 24, 2024
Author(s)
Gorjan Alagic, Maxime Bros, Pierre Ciadoux, David Cooper, Quynh Dang, Thinh Dang, John M. Kelsey, Jacob Lichtinger, Carl A. Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Hamilton Silberg, Daniel Smith-Tone, Noah Waller, Yi-Kai Liu
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of evaluating public-key digital signature algorithms through a public competition-like process for potential standardization. Any signature scheme eventually selected would augment

The Global and Local Structure of Medium-Scale Pool Fires

October 24, 2024
Author(s)
Kunhyuk Sung, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Matthew Bundy, Marco Fernandez, Anthony Hamins
A series of experiments are reported that characterize key features of the structure of eight medium-scale pool fires (0.3 m to 0. 4 m) burning a variety of liquid and gaseous fuel types, including 30 cm diameter liquid pool fires burning methanol, ethanol

Blueprint for Deploying 5G O-RAN Testbeds: A Guide to Using Diverse O-RAN Software Stacks

October 23, 2024
Author(s)
Peng Liu, Kyehwan Lee, Fernando Cintron, Simeon Wuthier, Bhadresh Savaliya, Douglas Montgomery, Richard Rouil
This documentation serves as a blueprint for new researchers, offering a comprehensive guide on establishing an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) testbed from scratch. It details the O-RAN architecture and the supporting software stacks required for each

Microstructure and mechanical properties of laser powder bed fusion Ti-6Al-4V after HIP treatments with varied temperatures and cooling rates

October 22, 2024
Author(s)
Nicholas Derimow, Jake Benzing, Howard Joress, Austin McDannald, Ping Lu, Frank DelRio, Newell Moser, Matthew Connolly, Alec Saville, Orion Kafka, Chad Beamer, Ryan Fishel, Chris Hadley, Nikolas Hrabe
This work investigated non-standard HIP cycles for PBF-L Ti-6Al-4V and characterized microstructure and tensile properties to compare between material that originated from the same build. For 920 °C, faster cooling rates (100 °C/min, 2000 °C/min) were

Measuring Post-Disaster Accessibility to Essential Goods and Services: Proximity, Availability, Adequacy, and Acceptability Dimensions

October 21, 2024
Author(s)
Amin Enderami, Elaina Sutley, Jennifer Helgeson, Leonardo Duenas-Osorio, Maria Watson, John van de Lindt
Rapid restoration of access to essential goods and services has long been regarded as paramount for community recovery. Yet, there remains ambiguity in how access should be defined, measured, or operationalized. Defining accessibility as the ability to use

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Enterprise Risk Management Quick-Start Guide

October 21, 2024
Author(s)
Stephen Quinn, Victoria Pillitteri, Matthew Barrett, Matthew Smith, Gregory Witte
This guide provides an introduction to using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 for planning and integrating an enterprise-wide process for integrating cybersecurity risk management information, as a subset of information and communications
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