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William P. Shackleford, Geraldine Cheok, Tsai H. Hong, Kamel Saidi, Michael O. Shneier
Detecting and tracking people is becoming more important in robotic applications because of the increasing demand for collaborative work in which people interact closely with and in the same workspace as robots. New safety standards allow people to work
Joseph A. Falco, Jeremy A. Marvel, Richard J. Norcross, Karl Van Wyk
Metrics and test methods are needed to characterize the control capabilities of robots with both intrinsic and extrinsic force sensing. The availability of these benchmarks will motivate research product development, and provide a mechanism for reporting
Simple vibration-based metrics are, in many cases, insufficient to diagnose machine tool spindle condition. These metrics couple defect-based motion with spindle dynamics; diagnostics should be defect-driven. A new method and spindle condition estimation
Roger V. Bostelman, Joseph A. Falco, Milli Shah, Tsai H. Hong
Multi-camera motion capture systems are commercially available and are typically used in the entertainment industry to track human motions for video gaming and movies. These systems are proving useful as ground truth measurement systems to assess the
Joseph A. Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Shuo Liu, Stefano Carpin
The expectation for robots to work side-by-side with humans in unstructured environments while reliably grasping and manipulating objects is a distant reality. Multiple reasons account for this persistent gap - some are technological, whereas others are
Richard Candell, Timothy A. Zimmerman, Keith A. Stouffer
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a cybersecurity performance testbed for industrial control systems. The goal of the testbed is to measure the performance of industrial control systems (ICS) when instrumented with
Michael O. Shneier, Elena R. Messina, Craig I. Schlenoff, Frederick M. Proctor, Thomas Kramer, Joseph Falco
With the growth of robotic technology, there is a need for performance measures to characterize and compare robots and to help determine which features are most suited to a particular application. Robot systems are complex and involve a wide range of
A robotic system typically consists of a number of subsystems, for example for sensing, manipulation, and motion. Performance measurements are frequently obtained independently for each of the subsystems but, because of conflicting interactions, it may be
Jeremy Marvel, Elena R. Messina, Brian Antonishek, Karl Van Wyk, Lisa J. Fronczek
An overview of the challenges associated with robot workcell calibration and registration is presented, with a particular focus on the challenges faced by small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. Considerations for the barriers to integrating
Joshua A. Gordon, David R. Novotny, Ronald C. Wittmann, Michael H. Francis, Miranda L. Butler, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri
The National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) recently developed a new robotic scanning system for performing near-field measurements at millimeter-wave (mm-wave)frequencies above 100 GHz, the configurable robotic millimeterwave antenna (CROMMA)
A linear axis is a vital subsystem of machine tools, which are vital systems within many manufacturing operations. When installed and operating within a manufacturing facility, a machine tool needs to stay in good condition for parts production. All
Benjamin Y. Choo, Peter A. Beling, Amy LaViers, Jeremy Marvel, Brian A. Weiss
Adaptive multi-scale prognostics and health management (AM-PHM) is a methodology designed to support PHM in smart manufacturing systems. AM-PHM is characterized by its incorporation of multi-level, hierarchical relationships and PHM information gathered