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This standard practice is intended for use by mobile manipulator manufacturers, suppliers, integrators, and end-users in either a laboratory or manufacturing environments to induce workpiece disturbances as a tested impairment while measuring the performance of mobile manipulators. Note that this standard practice is intended for use with other related and forthcoming standard practices and test methods for measuring mobile manipulator performance. The documentation of workpiece test configuration properties not pertaining to disturbance impairments is left to the existing standard: Standard Practice for Measuring Mobile Manipulators: Recording the Workpiece Test Configuration. The test apparatus for inducing workpiece disturbances described in this standard is covered by a provisional patent: Mobile Manipulator Workpiece Agitator with the serial number 63/635,212. Interested parties are invited to submit information regarding the identification of an alternative(s) to this patented item to the ASTM International Headquarters. Your comments will receive careful consideration at a meeting of the responsible technical committee, which you may attend. ASTM International takes no position respecting the validity of any patent rights asserted in connection with any item mentioned in this standard. Users of this standard are expressly advised that determination of the validity of any such patent rights, and the risk of infringement of such rights, are entirely their own responsibility.