Archived Projects

Archived Projects

The NIST Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) has, for over 30 years, performed research in many aspects of intelligent and complex systems for manufacturing. Prior and ongoing ISD work includes research in robotics, machine tools, coordinate measuring machines, mining equipment, autonomous underwater and land vehicles, and the underlying architectures, sensors and perception subsystems, interface standards, tools, simulation, and performance metrics used in their development and evaluation. We have learned from our early work in such efforts as the NIST Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF), that many of the technical issues associated with intelligent systems in the manufacturing domain, are universal for intelligent systems in general. This unique experience base has made ISD a valuable, and sought-after partner for a number of other agency funded efforts. For example, ISD has led and/or participated in projects to evaluate the performance of systems such as lane departure warning systems, collision avoidance systems, autonomous military vehicles, bomb-disposal robots, text-translation systems, soldier-worn sensor systems, and robots for urban search and rescue. In addition, ISD has been able to leverage other agency funds to advance our research in core elements of intelligent systems, including control, perception, planning and knowledge systems which we apply to intelligent and complex manufacturing systems and their performance measures. 

Part of the Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing Program that is still ongoing.

• Precursor Material Qualification
• AM Machine and Process Qualification
• Additive Manufacturing Part Qualification
• Metrology for Multi-Physics AM Model Validation
• Metrology for Real-Time Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing
• AM Machine and Process Control Methods for Additive Manufacturing
• Data Driven Decision Support for Additive Manufacturing
• Data Integration and Management for Additive Manufacturing

Part of the Advanced Manufacturing Data Infrastructure and Analytics Program that is still ongoing.

• Model-based Manufacturing Capability Definition
• Infrastructure for Agile Manufacturing Data Standards
• Product Digital Information Visualization and Exploration
• Knowledge Extraction and Application
• Monitoring, Diagnostics and Prognostics for Manufacturing Operations
• Supply Chain Traceability for Agri-Food Manufacturing

Part of the Measurement Science for Manufacturing Robotics Program that is still ongoing.

• A-Unmanned Ground Vehicles Research and Standard Test Methods (April 2018 - September 2023)
• Mobile Manipulator Performance Measurement Data (June 2017 - September 2023)

Trustworthy Systems, Components, and Data for Smart Manufacturing Program (October 2018 - September 2021)

• Cybersecurity for Smart Manufacturing Systems (October 2018 - September 2021)
• Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation (October 2018 - September 2021)
  • Wireless Systems for Industrial Environments (March 2014 - September 2021)
  • 2.4 and 5 GHz Propagation Measurements (July 2016 - September 2021)
• Prognostics and Health Management for Reliable Operations in Smart Manufacturing (PHM4SM) (October 2018 - September 2021)

Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program (October 2013 - September 2018)

• Cybersecurity for Smart Manufacturing Systems (October 2013 - September 2018)
• Prognostics, Health Management, and Control (PHMC) (October 2013 - September 2018)

  • Degradation Measurement of Robot Arm Position Accuracy Dataset (October 2013 - September 2018)

• Wireless Systems for Industrial Environments (October 2013 - September 2018)

Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing Program (October 2013 - September 2018)

• Characterization of Additive Manufacturing Materials (October 2013 - September 2018)
• Qualification for Additive Manufacturing Materials, Processes, and Parts (October 2013 - September 2018)
• Real-Time Control of Additive Manufacturing Processes (October 2013 - September 2018)
• Systems Integration for Additive Manufacturing Project (October 2013 - September 2018)

Robotic Systems for Smart Manufacturing Program (October 2013 - September 2018)

• Agility Performance of Robotic Systems

  • Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition

• Performance Assessment Framework for Robotics Systems (October 2013 - September 2018)
  • Performance Data Analytics
  • Performance Metrics and Benchmarks to Advance the State of Robotic Grasping
  • Performance Metrics and Benchmarks to Advance the State of Robotic Assembly
  • ASTM Committee F45 on Driverless Automatic Guided Industrial Vehicles
  • Mobile Manipulator Performance Measurement Data
• Performance of Collaborative Robot Systems
• Robotic Systems Interoperability and Integration (October 2013 - September 2018)
• Tools for Collaborative Robots within SME Workcell

  • 3D Data for the Evaluation of Point-Based, Rigid Body Registration Error

  • Data and Results from Three Peg-in-Hole Experiments for Improving Insertion Tasks

ALFUS - Autonomy Levels For Unmanned Systems

Healthcare Mobility

I++ DME (Dimensional Measurement Equipment)

Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS)

RCS - The Real-time Control Systems Architecture

RoboCrane