NIST Unveils “All-in-One” Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna Test Facility

Engineers soup up off-the-shelf robots to new standards of accuracy

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NIST Unveils “All-in-One” Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna Test Facility
Off-the-shelf robots and layers of custom feedback control let NIST's new CROMMA robot position probes to within 25 μm on all of the 76,000 measurements needed to characterize a mm-wave antenna
Photo: Curt Suplee/NIST