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This standard practice is intended for use by mobile manipulator manufacturers, suppliers, integrators, and end-users in either a laboratory or manufacturing environments to measure the performance of a single mobile manipulator in executing tasks that are continuous with respect to the mobile manipulator. For the purposes of this practice, “continuous tasks” are limited to those in which the A-UGV and manipulator are in simultaneous motion while physically connected. The following scenarios are currently not considered under this standard, but may be addressed by a future standard or revision to this standard: 1) Tasks that are non-continuous with respect to the mobile manipulator, 2) performance of mobile manipulator fleets, and 3) the workpiece being moved or disturbed during a test repetition, though the workpiece may be moved in between test repetitions.