Work Item
ASTM WK86116
New Practice for Measuring Mobile Manipulator Performance: Recording the Workpiece Configuration
1. Scope
This practice describes accepted procedures for recording the configuration of workpieces used to conduct mobile manipulator performance evaluation. The information contained in this practice provides instructions and a test report to record workpiece configuration characteristics, such as physical properties, user-adjustable properties, coordinate system descriptions, location of registration fiducials, and pose-constrained targets (PCTs). A completed example test report is also provided using a test apparatus, the Configurable Mobile Manipulator Apparatus (CMMA), as the workpiece under performance evaluation.
Keywords
Automatic, Automated, or Autonomous-Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (A-UGV); Configurable Mobile Manipulator Apparatus (CMMA); Continuous Mobile Manipulator Task; Mobile Manipulator; Manipulator; Static/Indexed Mobile Manipulator Task; Workpiece.
Rationale
This standard practice is intended for use by mobile manipulator manufacturers, suppliers, integrators, and end-users in either a laboratory or manufacturing environments to document the configuration characteristics of the workpiece used to conduct mobile manipulator performance evaluation. Such characteristics: 1) contextualize the mobile manipulator with respect to the workpiece configuration during measurement or test. 2) identify the main adjustable configuration parameters, 3) provide the proper context for mobile manipulator performance measurement and/or test results with respect to the workpiece configuration, 4) provide basis of comparison for mobile manipulator performance measurement and/or test circumstances across different workpieces and/or performance measurements/tests, and 5) allow a mobile manipulator performance measurement and/or test to be replicated. Note that this standard practice is intended for use with other related and forthcoming standard practices and test methods for measuring mobile manipulator performance. This standard practice does not currently consider scenarios in which the workpiece is moved while a test repetition is in progress, though the workpiece may be moved in between test repetitions. A future standard practice or revision will consider scenarios in which the workpiece is moved or disturbed during test repetitions.
The title and scope are in draft form and are under development within this ASTM Committee.
Work Item Status
Date Initiated: 04-26-2023
Technical Contact: Omar Aboul-Enein
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