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Recommendations for Autonomous Industrial Vehicle Performance Standards

May 31, 2016
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman
A workshop was held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, called: "Autonomous Industrial Vehicles: From the Laboratory to the Factory Floor." Nine research papers were presented followed by a discussion session summarized in this

Automating Robot Planning using Product and Manufacturing Information

May 9, 2016
Author(s)
Frederick M. Proctor, Gijs van der Hoorn, Robert R. Lipman
Advances in sensing, modeling, and control have made it possible to increase the accuracy of robots, and enable them to perform in dynamic environments. Often, performance deficiencies are not evident until late in the development of the manufacturing

Addressing Perception Uncertainty Induced Failure Modes in Robotic Bin-Picking

May 3, 2016
Author(s)
Krishnanand N. Kaipa, Akshaya S. Kankanhalli-Nag, Nithyananda B. Kumbla, Shaurya Shriyam, Srudeep Somnaath Thevendria-Karthic, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta
We present a comprehensive approach to handle perception uncertainty to reduce failure rates in robotic bin-picking. Our focus is on mixed-bins. We identify the main failure modes at various stages of the bin-picking task and present methods to recover

Test Methods for the Evaluation of Manufacturing Mobile Manipulator Safety

April 20, 2016
Author(s)
Jeremy A. Marvel, Roger V. Bostelman
A test methodology for evaluating the safety of mobile manipulators (robot arms mounted on mobile bases) is presented. This methodology addresses the safety concerns relevant to modern, agile manufacturing practices in which mobile manipulators are

Multi-purpose Configurable Range for Antenna Testing Up To 220 GHz*

April 9, 2016
Author(s)
David R. Novotny, Michael H. Francis, Ronald C. Wittmann, Josh Gordon, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, Alexandra Curtin
NIST has developed a multi-purpose test range for performing several types of antenna testing including spherical, cylindrical and planar near-field scanning as well as extrapolation measurements. This range uses a commercial, offthe- shelf, six-axis robot

Guidelines for the Registration of Two Coordinate Frames

March 2, 2016
Author(s)
Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek
The purpose of registration is to obtain the transformation matrix between two coordinate frames. Typically, sensors record positional measurements in their own local coordinate frame. When positional data are acquired by two instruments or two datasets

Recommended Protocols for Round Robin Studies in Additive Manufacturing

March 1, 2016
Author(s)
Shawn P. Moylan, Christopher U. Brown, John A. Slotwinski
One way to improve confidence and encourage proliferation of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and parts is by generating more high quality performance data. Many in the AM community see round robin studies as a way to generate large data sets while
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