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Title: Interactive Computer-Enhanced Remote Viewing System. Quarterly report number 6, April--June, 1994

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:10189278

The Interactive, Computer-Enhanced, Remote Viewing System (ICERVS) is a system designed to provide a reliable geometric description of a robotic task space in a fashion that enables robotic remediation to be carried out more efficiently and economically than with present systems. The key elements are a faithful way to store empirical data and a friendly user interface that provides an operator with timely access to all that is known about a scene. ICERVS will help an operator to analyze a scene and generate additional geometric data for automating significant portions of the remediation activity. The development of ICERVS is to occur in three phases. The development of ICERVS is to occur in three phases. Phase 1 will focus on the development of the Data Library, which contains the geometric data about the task space and the objects in it, and the Toolkit, which includes the mechanisms for manipulating and displaying both empirical and model data. Phase 2 will concentrate on integrating these subsystems with a sensor subsystem into one working system. Some additional functionality will be incorporated in the Data Library and Toolkit subsystems. Phase 3 will expand the configuration to meet the needs of a full scale demonstration of the interactive mapping of some waste site to be identified. The second Phase of the ICERVS project consists of nine tasks which are described in Attachment A. This listing includes the eight tasks originally proposed together with an additional task to supply a working copy of ICERVS to INEL for use with the Buried Waste Integrated Demonstration (BWID). ICERVS software implementation is almost complete and integration of the ICERVS Phase 2 software has begun.

Research Organization:
Mechanical Technology, Inc., Latham, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC21-92MC29113
OSTI ID:
10189278
Report Number(s):
DOE/MC/29113-3912; ON: DE95001479; BR: EW4010200/EW4035100; TRN: AHC29426%%17
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1 Aug 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English