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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

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

Effects of the Human Presence among Robots in the ARIAC 2023 Industria Automation Competition

July 30, 2024
Author(s)
Leandro Buss Becker, Anthony Downs, Craig I. Schlenoff, Justin Albrecht, Zeid Kootbally, Angelo Ferrando, Rafael Cardoso, Michael Fisher
The ''Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition'' (ARIAC) is an international robotic competition carried out in a simulated factory floor. ARIAC's competitors must perform assembly and kitting tasks by means of controlling four AGVs, one floor

The Need for Reproducible Research in Soft Robotics

July 16, 2024
Author(s)
Andrew Spielberg, Jeremy Marvel, Dylan Shah, Jennifer Case, Robert Baines
To avoid facing a reproducibility crisis that will undermine the recent rapid pace of research and hamper widespread adoption, the field of soft robotics needs to establish best practices and uphold rigorous reporting.

Merging Outcomes of SAM Applied to RGB and Depth Images in Bin Picking Applications

April 19, 2024
Author(s)
Marek Franaszek, Prem Rachakonda, Pavel Piliptchak, Kamel S. Saidi
Segmenting images containing many objects stacked in unstructured piles is a challenging and vital task in robotic bin picking applications. Objects in such images are congested and occluded but, nevertheless, must be accurately segmented to calculate

Preliminary Study of Mixed Reality Interfaces for Collaborative Robot Programming of a Manufacturing Assembly Task Board

March 9, 2024
Author(s)
Medhavi Kamran, Snehesh Shrestha, Arnav Juneja, Shelly Bagchi, Jeremy Marvel, Megan Zimmerman, Vinh Nguyen
Collaborative robot tasks in manufacturing often involve manually placing and recording the robot in various positions throughout the intended task. However, existing methods for programming robot have been shown to cause physical strain and confusion for

FY24 Soft Robotics Report

February 29, 2024
Author(s)
Jennifer Case, Jeremy Marvel
Advances in robotics research have begun incorporating non-traditional materials, such as rubbers and elastomers, into the structure of robots giving them new capabilities. This inclusion of soft materials has highlighted a number of metrology challenges

Data Requirements for a Digital Twin of a Robot Workcell

February 1, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao
The applications of digital twins continue to grow with the volume and variety of data collected. These data support the modeling of function, behavior, and structure of a physical element. However, successfully building a digital twin requires data

Continuous Mobile Manipulator Performance Measurement Data

January 18, 2024
Author(s)
Omar Aboul-Enein, Henry Medeiros, Mili Shah, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Roger Bostelman, Ann Virts
Mobile manipulators, which are robotic systems integrating an automatic or autonomous mobile base with a manipulator, can potentially enhance automation in many industrial and unstructured environments. Namely, large-scale manufacturing processes, typical

Robotic Antenna Measurements

December 11, 2023
Author(s)
Josh Gordon
Robots excel at manipulating objects with 6 degree of freedom movement. A combination of well-defined kinematics, optimized control loops, and robust mechanical architecture make robots a versatile and capable platform for a range of applications where

Improving Fitting CAD to 3D Point Cloud Acquired with Line-of-Sight Sensor

November 7, 2023
Author(s)
Marek Franaszek, Prem Rachakonda, Kamel S. Saidi
Due to self-occlusions in 3D point clouds acquired with line-of-sight sensors, an incomplete representation of an object's surface is used in fitting a CAD (computer-aided design) model to the data. For certain types of object geometry, CAD pose fitted

Using a BDI Agent to Represent a Human on the Factory Floor of the ARIAC 2023 Industrial Automation Competition

September 15, 2023
Author(s)
Leandro Buss Becker, Anthony Downs, Craig I. Schlenoff, Justin Albrecht, Zeid Kootbally, Angelo Ferrando, Rafael Cordoso, Michael Fisher
The "Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition" (ARIAC) is an international robotic competition carried out in a simulated ROS2/Gazebo factory floor. Competitors control a robot, overcoming a range of agility challenges in this simulated

Augmented Reality Interface for Robot-Sensor Coordinate Registration

August 4, 2023
Author(s)
Vinh Nguyen, Xiaofeng Liu, Jeremy Marvel
Accurate registration of Cartesian coordinate systems is vital to facilitate advanced metrological solutions of industrial robots in production environments. Conducting coordinate registration between industrial robots and their metrological systems

Design and Implementation of a Closed-Loop Mobile Manipulator Control System

July 28, 2023
Author(s)
Omar Aboul-Enein, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Roger Bostelman, Ann Virts
Mobile manipulators, which integrate a robotic manipulator with an automatic--autonomous mobile base, have the potential to augment automation by combining the capability of navigation with complex manipulation to support unstructured and dynamic

Evaluation Methods and Measurement Challenges for Industrial Exoskeletons

June 15, 2023
Author(s)
Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Ann Virts, Roger Bostelman, Soocheol Yoon, Amaan Rahman, Lucia Rhode, Nishat Ahmed, Mili Shah
In recent years, exoskeleton test methods for industrial exoskeletons have evolved to include simulated laboratory and field environments. Physiological, kinematic and kinetic metrics, as well as subjective surveys are used to evaluate exoskeleton

BUILDING A DIGITAL TWIN OF AN AUTOMATED ROBOT WORKCELL

May 26, 2023
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh
Building a digital twin of a manufacturing system can positively impact its performance with respect to productivity, energy consumption, product quality, and cost. However, leveraging available methods and tools to build a digital twin has been a

GRID-VIDEO MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR A-UGV'S SMALL OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE PERFORMANCE

November 3, 2022
Author(s)
Soocheol Yoon, Roger V. Bostelman, Ann Virts
With the advancement of factory logistics into the autonomous era comes the need to validate the safety and performance characteristics of Autonomous-Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs) working in these application spaces ASTM Committee F45 has been

Feasibility of using depth cameras for evaluating human - exoskeleton interaction

October 14, 2022
Author(s)
Soocheol Yoon, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Ann Virts, Roger V. Bostelman, Milli Shah
With increased use of exoskeletons in a variety of fields such as industry, military, and health care, there is a need for measurement standards to understand the effects of exoskeletons on human motion. Optical tracking systems are the current gold

Evaluation of Data-Driven Models in Human-Robot Load-Sharing

September 30, 2022
Author(s)
Vinh Nguyen, Jeremy Marvel
Human-robot load-sharing is a potential application for human-robot collaborative systems in production environments. However, knowledge of the appropriate data-driven models for this application type is limited due to a lack of physical real-world data
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