Specifications for Intelligent Control System Software Components

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Enabling Component-Based Intelligent Control Systems

This project is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) Component-Based Software Focused Program. The Component-Based Software Focused Program is aimed at increasing the productivity of software users and developers by enabling systematic reuse of components, increasing interoperation of software, and enabling automated assembly of software components. The Intelligent Systems Division of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory is researching methods of specifying software components tailored for real-time control systems. Collaborating with an ATP grantee, Real-Time Innovations, Inc., we are developing the specifications and implementing a component for the estimation of a part's pose based on sensory information.


General Information about Software Component Specifications


A Paper Documenting our Initial Findings is Available.

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For more information, contact:
Elena Messina
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Building 220, Room B124
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001

E-mail: elena.messina@nist.gov
Voice: 301-975-3510
FAX: 301-990-9688
Web: http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/staff/messina/

John Horst
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Building 220, Room B124
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001

E-mail: john.horst@nist.gov
Voice: 301-975-3430
FAX: 301-990-9688
Web: http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/staff/horst/

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Last Modified: February 27, 2001