Performance standards for industrial mobile robots and mobile manipulators (robot arms onboard mobile robots) have only recently begun development. Low cost and standardized measurement techniques are needed to characterize system performance, compare different systems, and to determine if recalibration is required. This paper discusses work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

X-ray powder diffraction provides a direct analysis of phase abundance of portland cement clinkers and cements. The ASTM C01 (Cement) Committee formed a task group to investigate quantitative X-ray powder diffraction analysis that resulted in the ASTM C 1365 standard test for X-ray powder diffraction of portland cement clinker and portland cement. Estimates of test precision and bias are requir...

Denatured fuel ethanol is the feedstock used to make different types of high ethanol content motor fuels. Before it can be used, the amount of ethanol and methanol must be measured to assure product quality. ASTM method D5501-09 uses high resolution gas chromatography to perform this analysis. In this paper, the Agilent 7890A GC system was configured to run D5501-09. Excellent system performanc...