Showing papers on "Technical performance measure published in 2006"
10 Apr 2006
TL;DR: In this article, a global approach to hand gesture vocabulary design is proposed which includes human as well as technical design factors including human centered desires of multiple users are implicitly represented through indices obtained from ergonomic studies representing the psychophysiological aspects of users.
Abstract: A global approach to hand gesture vocabulary design is proposed which includes human as well as technical design factors. The human centered desires of multiple users are implicitly represented through indices obtained from ergonomic studies representing the psychophysiological aspects of users. The main technical aspect considered is that of machine recognition of gestures. We review and classify three approaches to this problem: Ad hoc, Rule based, and Analytical. It is believed that this is the first conceptualization of the optimal hand gesture design problem in analytical form. A mathematical dual objective model is developed, which reflects the psychophysiological and technical performance measures upon which a gesture control system is judged. The mathematical program solves a quadratic assignment problem embedded within a heuristic search tree. The quadratic problem, whose solution is a gesture vocabulary GV, (a command-gesture matching) is solved through simulated annealing. A useful feature, included in the formulation, is the priorities given to the matching of complementary pairs of gestures (say thumb up - thumb down) to complementary pairs of commands (say up - down). To validate the procedure an example is solved for the design of a medium size robot command GV.
15 citations
01 Jul 2006
TL;DR: In this article, a prioritization process has been developed and used at National Security Solutions of BAE Systems to derive weights of importance for the criteria in tradeoff studies and to prioritize goals, customer needs, capabilities, risks, directives, initiatives, issues, activities, requirements, technical performance measures, features and functions.
Abstract: A prioritization process has been developed and used at National Security Solutions of BAE Systems. It has been used to derive weights of importance for the criteria in tradeoff studies and to prioritize goals, customer needs, capabilities, risks, directives, initiatives, issues, activities, requirements, technical performance measures, features and functions.
4 citations
01 Jul 2006
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend an earlier published methodology for measuring the technical performance risk of a system to that of a System-of-Systems (SoS) capability, defined as the Technical Risk Index (TRI).
Abstract: This paper extends an earlier published methodology [1] for measuring the technical performance risk of a system to that of a system-of-systems (SoS). The earlier work established an approach for combining an individual system's Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) into an overall measure of performance risk, defined as the Technical Risk Index (TRI). This paper extends this approach so a similar index can be developed for a system composed of many interdependent or connected systems that come together as a whole to provide an SoS capability.
3 citations
Patent•
28 Sep 2006TL;DR: In this article, a method for managing one or more technical performance measure parameters is provided, which includes defining the one or multiple technical performance measures parameters and determining, tracking and trending one or several achieved capabilities and one or many projected capabilities.
Abstract: A method for managing one or more technical performance measure parameters is provided. The method includes defining the one or more technical performance measures parameters and determining, tracking and trending one or more achieved capabilities and one or more projected capabilities of the one or more technical performance measures parameters.
2 citations
14 Jun 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the commercial practice of using the Statement Of Work (SOW) for specifying good design practices leads to good reliability as a byproduct and that using the SOW methodology works and that it is a much better approach than only specifying MTBF as TPM.
Abstract: For years, organizations such as the government, have been trying to improve product and system reliability by specifying MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) as a TPM (Technical Performance Measure). Yet, looking at papers and presentations from NASA on Ultra Reliability and ATRIP (Army Transformation Reliability Improvement Program) from the Army, system reliability has been declining. More and more systems are not meeting their reliability goals. As an alternative approach, government contract officers need to follow the lead of the medical community and change behaviors as soon as possible on how to obtain improved equipment life expectancy along with all of the benefits that go along with good, reliable, equipment. The government equipment procurers need to say in the contract what they want done in the SOW (Statement Of Work) that would lead to more reliable products along with less risky development programs. The purpose of this paper is to show that the commercial practice of using the SOW for specifying good design practices leads to good reliability as a byproduct and that using the SOW methodology works and that it is a much better approach than only specifying MTBF as TPM
2 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: This text analyses on the basis of managing theoretical research in technical standard both at home and abroad in the survey, the research approach and system with the strategic theory after putting forward the technical standard based on technological innovation.
Abstract: The technical standards are becoming another new bottleneck that the manufacturing industry of our country developed.The important reasons of the technical standard of our country is backward in management is not merely backward in technique,still lie in our technical standard management system lags behind,technical standard strategy lag behind.One of the important reasons of this kind of situation is that we study the backwardness on in management theory and method of technical standard.This text analyses on the basis of managing theoretical research in technical standard both at home and abroad in the survey,manage the research approach and system with the strategic theory after putting forward the technical standard based on technological innovation.
1 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: Based on the meaning of the technical standard alliance and the influencing factors on the establishment and diffusion of technical standards, Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the influence of technical standard agreement on the development and adoption of standards in China.
Abstract: With the severe international competition, it has been consensus for China's enterprises to establish their own standard system through building a technical standard alliance. In this paper, based on the meaning of the technical standard alliance and the influencing factors on the establishment and diffusion of technical standards, we will study the influence of technical standard alliance on the establishment and diffusion of technical standards, and in the end we will bring forward some advice on how to found the technical standard alliance in China.
1 citations
01 Jul 2006
TL;DR: This paper presents the BAE National Security Solutions TPM process and a TPM template and gives lessons learned from piloting it on a program.
Abstract: Technical performance measures (TPMs) are tools that show how well a system is satisfying its requirements or meeting its goals. This paper presents the BAE National Security Solutions TPM process and a TPM template. It gives lessons learned from piloting it on a program.
1 citations
01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: A global approach to hand gesture vocabulary design is proposed which includes human as well as technical design factors and it is believed that this is the first conceptualization of the optimal hand gesture design problem in analytical form.
Abstract: A global approach to hand gesture vocabulary design is proposed which includes human as well as technical design factors. The human centered desires of multiple users are implicitly represented through indices obtained from ergonomic studies representing the psychophysiological aspects of users. The main technical aspect considered is that of machine recognition of gestures. We review and classify three approaches to this problem: Ad hoc, Rule based, and Analytical. It is believed that this is the first conceptualization of the optimal hand gesture design problem in analytical form. A mathematical dual objective model is developed, which reflects the psychophysiological and technical performance measures upon which a gesture control system is judged. The mathematical program solves a quadratic assignment problem embedded within a heuristic search tree. The quadratic problem, whose solution is a gesture vocabulary GV, (a command-gesture matching) is solved through simulated annealing. A useful feature, included in the formulation, is the priorities given to the matching of complementary pairs of gestures (say thumb up - thumb down) to complementary pairs of commands (say up - down). To validate the procedure an example is solved for the design of a medium size robot command GV.
1 citations