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Performance Analysis of Symbolic Road Recognition for On-Road Driving

January 31, 2007
Author(s)
Mike Foedisch, Craig I. Schlenoff, Rajmohan Madhavan
Previous approaches to road sensing, namely road detection were based on segmenting the sensor data, i.e. color camera image, into road and non-road areas. Performance evaluation for such algorithms could be performed in a relatively straightforward

Performance Evaluation of Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems

January 31, 2007
Author(s)
Jack J. Ference, Sandor S. Szabo, Wassim G. Najm
This paper describes a program to develop and test an integrated crash warning system that addresses rear-end, lane change, and roadway departure crashes for passenger cars and heavy commercial trucks. One of the goals of this program is to facilitate the

Technology Evaluations and Performance Metrics for Soldier-Worn Sensors for ASSIST

January 31, 2007
Author(s)
Brian Weiss, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael O. Shneier, Ann Virts
The DARPA-funded Advanced Soldier Sensor Information Systems and Technology (ASSIST) project is aimed at developing soldier-worn sensors to increase a soldier s battlefield awareness during humanitarian and combat missions, provide them with data

Traversability Metrics for Urban Search and Rescue Robots on Rough Terrain

January 31, 2007
Author(s)
V Molino, Rajmohan Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, Anthony J. Downs, Adam S. Jacoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky
Rough terrain, such as the rubble that we would expect to find in urban disaster areas, will likely impede robot mobility. The goal of this paper is to find methods for quantifying the difficulty a robot should encounter traversing a region of rough

DHS/NIST Response Robot Evaluation Exercises

January 8, 2007
Author(s)
Adam S. Jacoff, Elena R. Messina
The Department of Homeland Security, through the Science and Technology Directorate Standards Program, is developing performance standards for robots applied to urban search and rescue (US&R). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is

Testing and Monitoring E-Business Using the Event-Driven Test Scripting Language

January 1, 2007
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, J Durand, Jungyub Woo, M Martin
This paper addresses challenges associated with conformance and interoperability testing of today's e-business technologies and proposes a new approach that improves on existing, test scripting languages and operation modes. A test model and scripting are

A Roadmap For Metrology Interoperability

December 4, 2006
Author(s)
John A. Horst, S McSpadden
An International Metrology Interoperability Summit (IMIS) was held March 28 - 30, 2006 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. Workers and decision makers in a variety of dimensional metrology corporations and organizations worldwide participated. The first day

Applications of a 3D Range Camera Towards Healthcare Mobility Aids

October 3, 2006
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, Peter Russo, James S. Albus, Tsai Hong Hong, Rajmohan Madhavan
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently studied a new 3D range camera for use on mobile robots. These robots have potential applications in manufacturing, healthcare and perhaps several other service related areas beyond the

Unstructured Facility Navigation by Applying the NIST 4D/RCS Architecture

September 5, 2006
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai Hong Hong, Tommy Chang, William P. Shackleford, Michael O. Shneier
The National Institute of Standards and Technology s (NIST) Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) is working with the material handling industry, specifically on automated guided vehicles, to develop next generation vehicles. ISD is also a participant in the

Message Validation with a Semantic Reasoning Tools

September 1, 2006
Author(s)
Peter O. Denno, Nenad Ivezic
This paper describes challenges encountered in the development of a tool to validate OASIS UBL-based (Universal Business Language) messages. The software tool is ontology-based, using first-order logic and parts of the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO

A Validation Architecture for Advanced Interoperability Provisioning

August 1, 2006
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Albert W. Jones, Pat Snack, Zuran Marjanovic, Hyunbo Cho
We describe an architecture to validate new tools in support of interoperability provisioning processes that take place within industrial communities. We start from a best-practices standards development process where an industry community develops

An Infrastructure to Support Performance Analysis in Complex Systems

August 1, 2006
Author(s)
Man-Sze Li, A S. Deshmukh, Albert T. Jones
Systems research efforts have increased in a variety of disciplines. Despite these efforts, it is still difficult to predict long-term performance and to understand the relationship between the performance of the parts and the performance of the whole. The

Architecture of Focus 3D Telemodeling Tool

August 1, 2006
Author(s)
Arthur Griesser
A high level design of Focus 3D Telemodeling tool is presented. Infrastructure components are selected in the light of the functional and non functional requirements of the Focus project. A description of how these components will fit together is provided

Evaluating Suitability for Replacement of an Integrated Software Component

August 1, 2006
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, B Jeong, Hyunbo Cho, Nenad Ivezic, Albert W. Jones
An evaluation of the compatibility of a software component is based typically only on a vendor?s presentation. This means that end users select a software component only based on high-level matches of functional requirements. This can result in an

Performance Standards for Urban Search and Rescue Robots

August 1, 2006
Author(s)
Elena R. Messina
This article describes the motivation and approach for developing standard test methods for robots applied to urban search and rescue missions. The work is being carried out by Task Group E54.08.01, which is within the Operational Equipment subcommittee

Autonomy Levels for Unmanned Systems (ALFUS) Framework: An Update

June 28, 2006
Author(s)
Hui-Min Huang, K Pavek, James S. Albus, Elena R. Messina
The initial construct of the framework for the Autonomy Levels of Unmanned Systems (ALFUS) was presented in the 2004 SPIE3 Defense and Security Symposium. This paper describes the continuing development effort and further accomplishments made by the Ad Hoc

Collaborative Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Ground and Air Vehicles

June 28, 2006
Author(s)
James S. Albus, Anthony J. Barbera, Harry A. Scott, Stephen B. Balakirsky
Tactical behaviors for autonomous ground and air vehicles are an area of high interest to the Army. They are critical for the inclusion of robots in the Future Combat System (FCS). Tactical behaviors can be defined at multiple levels: at the Company

Experiments toward Non-contact Safety Standards for Automated Industrial Vehicles

June 28, 2006
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai Hong Hong, Rajmohan Madhavan
The performance evaluation of an obstacle detection and segmentation algorithm is explained upon comparing a new range camera to ground truth. Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in factory-like environments may one day utilize this algorithm for advanced
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