Manipulation

Projects and Programs

Mobility Performance of Robotic Systems

Ongoing

Mobile robots are expanding their capabilities well beyond the traditional role of Automatic/Automated/Autonomous Guided Vehicles (A-UGV) as they attain greater

Measurement Science for Manufacturing Robotics

Ongoing

To develop and deploy measurement science, standards, and test methods that advance manufacturing robotic system performance, collaboration, agility, autonomy

Embodied AI and Data Generation for Manufacturing Robotics

Ongoing

Approaches categorized as “artificial intelligence” (AI) are enabling significant advances in robotics. These include symbolic logic, Bayesian statistics, and

Publications

Performance Measurement of a Mobile Manipulator-on-a-Cart and Coordinate Registration Methods for Manufacturing Applications

November 18, 2021

Author(s)

Omar Aboul-Enein, Roger V. Bostelman, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mili Shah

Mobile manipulators, which consist of a robotic manipulator arm on a vehicular base, enable more flexible and dynamic workflows in manufacturing processes by

Formalizing Performance Evaluation of Mobile Manipulator Robots using CTML

November 20, 2020

Author(s)

Omar Y. Aboul-Enein, Yaping Jing, Roger Bostelman

Computation Tree Measurement Language (CTML) is a newly developed formal language that offers simultaneous model verification and performance evaluation

INFORMATION MODEL FOR A-UGV PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT STANDARD

November 19, 2020

Author(s)

Soocheol Yoon, Roger V. Bostelman

Automatic through autonomous - Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs) have the potential to be applied over a wide range of manufacturing systems under industry 4.0

Human-Supervised Semi-Autonomous Mobile Manipulators for Safely and Efficiently Executing Machine Tending Tasks

October 16, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah Al-Hussaini, Shantanu Thakar, Hyojeong Kim, Pradeep Rajendran, Brual C. Shah, Alec Kanyuck, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta

Mobile manipulators can be used for machine tending and material handling tasks in small volume manufacturing applications. These applications usually have semi

Awards

Roger Bostelman receives 2018 ASTM Presidents Leadership Award

Roger Bostelman Receives the 2018 ASTM International James A. Thomas President’s Leadership Award

Roger Bostelman, a project manager in the Engineering Laboratory's Intelligent Systems Division at NIST, was recently awarded the 2018 ASTM