Manipulation and Mobility Systems Group

Army Research Laboratory Perception/ Performance Evaluation Project—The detection, classification, and tracking of moving vehicles and people from an unmanned vehicle maneuvering at speeds of up to 80 kph remain a recognized risk to the successful development of …

Federal Highway Administration Exploratory Advanced Research Program—Leverage NIST knowledge and capabilities in task analysis, perception, autonomous vehicle systems, and performance measurements to support an FWHA project to evaluate visibility requirements for …

RoboCrane—(Concluded) The RoboCrane design utilizes the basic idea of the Stewart Platform parallel link manipulator. The unique feature of the NIST approach is the use of cables as the parallel links and …

DARPA Learning Applied to Ground Robots (LAGR) Project—The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) participated in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Learning Applied to Ground Robots …

Dynamic Tracking or Ground Truth Referencing of Robotic Perception Systems for Army Research Laboratory and Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) —Develop and deploy measurement technologies and test methods with a focus on obtaining ground truth for fixed and moving objects in support of the evaluation of perception and other robotic …

Development of Standard Test Methods for Emergency Response Robots for Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) and National Institute of Justice Project—The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a comprehensive set of standard test methods and associated performance metrics to quantify key capabilities of …