Robotic minimally-invasive-surgery (rMIS) is the fastest growing segment of computer-aided surgical systems today and has often been heralded as the new revolution in healthcare industry. However, the surgical performance-evaluation paradigms have ...

This paper describes a model to replicate the dynamics of a walking robot inside USARSim. USARSim is an existing 3D simulator based on the Unreal Engine, which provides facilities for good quality rendering, physics simulation, networking, a highly ...

Competitions are an effective aid to the development and dissemination of standard test methods, especially in rapidly developing, fields with a wide variety of requirements and capabilities such as Urban Search and Rescue robotics. By exposing the ...

This paper proposes a test method for measuring the ability of a USV or ROV to fixate on an underwater object, i.e., station-keeping. Station-keeping is needed to permit an operator or domain expert to stay focused on an area in an image long enough to ...

Autonomous robots offer the potential to conduct Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction (C-WMD) missions in an efficient and robust manner. However, to leverage this potential, a mission designer needs to be able to determine how well a robot system will ...

A proposal for the utilization of Technology Readiness Levels to the application of unstructured bin picking is discussed. A special session was held during the 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop to discuss the challenges and ...

Personal video conferencing is now a common occurrence in long distance interpersonal relationships. Telepresence robots additionally provide mobility to video conferencing, and people can converse without being restricted to a single vantage point. The ...

This paper presents an overview of our work on integrating language with vision to endow robots with the ability of complex scene understanding. We propose and motivate the Vision-Action-Language loop as a form of cognitive dialogue that enables us to ...

This paper describes a novel, low cost HRI testbed for the evaluation of robot movement, gaze, audio style, and media content as a function of proximity. Numerous human-robot interaction studies have established the importance of proxemics in ...

Systems developed to estimate poses of objects in 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) Cartesian space (X, Y, and Z coordinates plus roll, pitch, and yaw) are reliant on the vendors' own processes to determine performance and measurement accuracy. These ...

This paper recommends the use of three distinct shape artifacts to evaluate shape-based pose estimation systems, and provide their rationale. These artifacts are the Reduced Pose Ambiguity Cuboctohedron (RPAC), a cube, and an 80-triangle tessellated ...

The 2011 Solutions in Perception Challenge presented an international collection of teams with the opportunity to develop algorithms that could accurately detect, recognize, and locate in space an arbitrary collection of artifacts. Researchers at the ...

Ground robotic vehicles are continuing to improve in intelligence, mobility, and reliability. Today, more than 3000 ground robotic vehicles are being used by the U. S. Army in the field. These vehicles' duties range from vehicle security to IED detection ...

Intelligent systems performance is a result of the interaction and cooperation of the system's components with one another and with their environment. In general, those components and subsystems can be fundamentally different in nature, structure and ...

In this paper, an overview of methods that solve the robotsensor calibration problem of the forms AX = XB and AX = YB is given. Each form will be split into three solutions: separable closed-form solutions, simultaneous closed-form solutions, and ...

In this paper, we explore some ways in which symbolic knowledge representations have been evaluated in the past and provide some thoughts on what should be considered when applying and evaluating these types of knowledge representations for real-time ...