# Acronyms and Terms

| Acronym | Term |
| --- | --- |
| ACT | Action Chunking with Transformers |
| ADBSCAN | Adaptive Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise |
| ADK | Agent Development Kit |
| AGV | Autonomous Guided Vehicle |
| AMR | Autonomous Mobile Robot |
| AOTA | Application Over The Air |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APM | Agentic Predictive Maintenance |
| ARIAC | Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition |
| ASR | Automatic Speech Recognition |
| BERT | Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers |
| BEV | Bird's Eye View |
| BGE | BAAI General Embedding |
| BKC | Best Known Configuration |
| BRIEF | Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features |
| CAN | Convolutional Attention Network |
| CAT | Cache Allocation Technology |
| CLIP | Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining |
| CNDA | Corporate Non-Disclosure Agreement |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| CNS | Correspondence encoded Neural image Servo policy |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CRUD | Create, Read, Update, Delete |
| CSP | Cyclic Synchronous Position |
| CST | Cyclic Synchronous Torque |
| CSV | Cyclic Synchronous Velocity (motion control); Comma-Separated Values (file format) |
| CUDA | Compute Unified Device Architecture |
| CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures |
| DBSCAN | Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise |
| DDS | Data Distribution Service |
| DMS | Device Management Service |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DRM | Deterministic Road Map |
| DVFS | Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling |
| ECI | Edge Controls for Industrial |
| EEF | Edge-device Enablement Framework |
| EMT | Edge Microvisor Toolkit |
| ENI | EtherCAT Network Information |
| EOF | End Of File |
| EOS | End Of Stream |
| EPP | Energy Performance Preference |
| ESI | EtherCAT SubDevice Information |
| EVAM | Edge Video Analytics Microservice |
| FAST | Features from Accelerated Segment Test |
| FDO | FIDO Device Onboard |
| FFI | Freedom From Interference |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| FIDO | Fast IDentity Online |
| FLANN | Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors |
| FOTA | Firmware Over The Air |
| FPS | Frames Per Second |
| GCL | Gate Control List |
| GEAR | Gazebo Environment for Agile Robotics |
| GMSL | Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPT | Generative Pretrained Transformer |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| GSLAM | General Simultaneous Localization and Mapping |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GVA | GStreamer Video Analytics |
| HBOM | Hardware Bill of Materials |
| HLS | High-Level Synthesis |
| HMI | Human Machine Interface |
| HOTA | Higher Order Tracking Accuracy |
| HPC | High-Performance Computing |
| IBVS | Image-Based Visual Servoing |
| ICP | Iterative Closest Point |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IFPD | Interactive Flat Panel Display |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit |
| IPC | Industrial PC |
| IPM | Infrastructure Power Manager |
| IPU | Image Processing Unit |
| IRL | Inverse Reinforcement Learning |
| ISV | Independent Software Vendor |
| ITS | Intelligent Sampling and Two-Way Search |
| JIT | Just-In-Time |
| JWT | JSON Web Token |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
| KVM | Kernel-based Virtual Machine |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LIDAR | LIght Detection And Ranging |
| LLC | Last Level Cache |
| LLM | Large Language Model |
| LTS | Long Term Support |
| LVC | Live Video Captioning |
| MASS | Multi-Axis Synchronization System |
| MBIM | Mobile Broadband Interface Model |
| MCM | Media Communication Mesh |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol |
| MDPNP | Medical Device Plug-and-Play |
| MLS | Moving Least Squares |
| MME | Multimodal Embedding |
| MOTA | Multiple Object Tracking Accuracy |
| MPC | Model Predictive Control |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport |
| MSM | Mobile Station Modem |
| NFD | Node Feature Discovery |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NLQ | Natural Language Query |
| NMS | Non-Maximum Suppression |
| NNCF | Neural Network Compression Framework |
| NPU | Neural Processing Unit |
| NVR | Network Video Recorder |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| ODE | Ordinary Differential Equation |
| OEP | Open Edge Platform |
| OMZ | Open Model Zoo |
| OOM | Out Of Memory |
| ORB | Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF |
| OSRF | Open Source Robotics Foundation |
| OSS | Open Source Software |
| OTA | Over The Air |
| OTLP | OpenTelemetry Protocol |
| PBVS | Position-Based Visual Servoing |
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
| PCL | Point Cloud Library |
| PDD | Pallet Defect Detection |
| PHC | PTP Hardware Clock |
| PID | Proportional-Integral-Derivative |
| PLC | Programmable Logic Controller |
| POTA | Programming Over The Air |
| PPA | Personal Package Archive |
| PRM | Probabilistic Road Map |
| PTP | Precision Time Protocol |
| PTQ | Post-Training Quantization |
| PVC | Persistent Volume Claim |
| QGC | QGroundControl |
| RAG | Retrieval Augmented Generation |
| RCU | Read-Copy-Update |
| RDC | Resource and Documentation Center |
| RDT | Robotics Diffusion Transformer |
| REST | Representational State Transfer |
| RGBD | Red, Green, Blue plus Depth |
| RHT | Randomized Hadamard Transform |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network |
| ROI | Region Of Interest |
| ROS | Robot Operating System |
| RPPG | Remote Photoplethysmography |
| RRF | Reciprocal Rank Fusion |
| RSS | Resident Set Size |
| RTAB | Real-Time Appearance-Based (Mapping) |
| RTC | Real-Time Chunking |
| RTL | Register Transfer Level |
| RTOS | Real-Time Operating System |
| RTPM | Real-Time Performance Measurement |
| RVC | Robot Vision and Control |
| SBOM | Software Bill of Materials |
| SCTP | Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SEI | Supplemental Enhancement Information |
| SFTP | SSH File Transfer Protocol |
| SLAM | Simultaneous Localization And Mapping |
| SMT | Surface Mount Technology |
| SOTA | operating System Over The Air |
| SRPA | Smart Route Planning Agent |
| SSD | Solid State Drive; Single Shot MultiBox Detector |
| SSE | Server-Sent Events |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| STIA | Smart Traffic Intersection Agent |
| TCC | Time Coordinated Computing |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol; Tool Center Point (robotics context) |
| TFCC | Transportation Fusion Compute Controller |
| TGI | Text Generation Inference |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TME | Total Memory Encryption |
| TMI | Test Module Interface |
| TOD | Time of Day |
| TOPS | Tera Operations Per Second |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
| TPOT | Time Per Output Token |
| TSAM | Time Series Analytics Microservice |
| TSN | Time-Sensitive Networking |
| TTFT | Time To First Token |
| TTL | Time To Live |
| TURN | Traversal Using Relays around NAT |
| UAV | Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle |
| UDF | User Defined Function |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface |
| UID | User Identifier |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier |
| UVC | USB Video Class |
| VAAPI | Video Acceleration API |
| VAD | Voice Activity Detection |
| VAP | VMS Adapter Plugin |
| VDMS | Visual Data Management System |
| VEI | Voice Enabled Interactions |
| VLA | Vision-Language-Action |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
| VLM | Vision Language Model |
| VMS | Video Management System |
| VNNI | Vector Neural Network Instructions |
| VPP | Video Processing Platform |
| VQA | Visual Question Answering |
| VSA | Videostream Analytics |
| VSLAM | Visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping |
| VSQA | Visual Search and Question-Answering |
| VSS | Video Search and Summarization |
| VSZ | Virtual Size |
| WBC | Whole-Body Control |
| WHIP | WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol |
| WWAN | Wireless Wide Area Network |
| XMX | Xe Matrix Extensions |