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Robotics

"A Reusable Robotic Grasping Creator", Ying Li, Justin Keesling, Chalongrath Pholsiri, Neil Tardella, and James English, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7692 76921N-2, 2010.

"Design, Creation, and Validation of a Comprehensive Database Infrastructure for Robotic Grasping," Ying Li, Justin Keesling, James English, and Neil Tardella, IEEE Biorob, pp. 335-341, 2008.

"Data Driven Grasp Synthesis using Shape Matching and Task-Based Pruning,"Ying Li, Jiaxin L. Fu, and Nancy S. Pollard, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, pp. 732-747, 2007.

"A Generic Framework for Controlling Bi-Handed Robotic Manipulators," Jayakrishnan T, J.D. English, and N.M. Tardella, International Conference on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Kochi, Kerala, India, September 19-21, 2007.

"Analysis of Object Grasp Regions for Multifingered Hand," Ying Li, Yong Yu and Showzow Tsujio, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.24, No.1, pp. 84-93 2006.

"A Shape Matching Algorithm for synthesizing Humanlike Enveloping Grasp,"Ying Li, Nancy Pollard, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 442-449, 2005.

"Real-Time Robot Capability Analysis,"C. Pholsiri, C. Kapoor, and D. Tesar,Proceedings of ASME 2005 Int. Design Eng. Technical Conferences, Long Beach, California, Sept. 2005.

"Manipulator Task-Based Performance Optimization,"C. Pholsiri, C. Kapoor and D. Tesar,Proceedings of ASME 2004 Int. Design Eng. Technical Conferences, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 2004.

"Integrated Teleoperation and Automation for Remote Operations,"E. Swint, C. Pholsiri, et al,.Proceedings of ANS 10th International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems for Hazardous Environments, Gainesville, Florida, 2004.

"A Non-Invasive Surgical Robot for Urology Cancer Treatment", S. Chauhan, J. Li, and R. Mishra, International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU), Lyon, France, 2003.

"A Vacuum Assisted Biopsy Robot for Prostate Cancer", S. Chauhan, J. Li, and R. Mishra, Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), Perth, Australia, 2003.
"A Minimally-Invasive Surgical Robot for Prostate Cancer Surgery", S. Chauhan, J. Li, and R. Mishra, Bioengineering and Biosciences The Next Frontier, Singapore, 2003.
"A Non-Invasive Surgical Robotic System for Urological Applications", S. Chauhan, J. Li, and R. Mishra, Seventh Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS), London, 2003.
"A Robotic Inspection System for Hazardous Environments", R. Mishra and CRJP Naidu, Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2003), Singapore, December 15-18, 2003.

"Extended Generalized Impedance Control for Redundant Manipulators,"C. Pholsiri, D. Rabindran, M. Pryor, and C.Kapoor,Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, 2003.

"An Analytical Grasp Planning on Given Object with Multifingered Hand,"Ying Li, Yong Yu and Showzow Tsujio, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3749-3754.

"Singularity Robust Inverse Kinematics for Teleoperation,"C. Pholsiri, C. Kapoor, and D. Tesar,Proceedings of Spectrum 2002 Int. Conf. on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management, Reno, NV, 2002.

"A Robotic Non-Invasive Breast Cancer Surgery", S.Chauhan, R. Mishra, S. Kumar, W.S. Ng, and M. Teo, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, 2002.

"Nandi-An Urban Terrain Mobile Robot", R. Mishra and K. Krishnanand, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, 2002.

"Safety of a Surgical Robot - Fundamental Aspects", R.Mishra and S. Chauhan, International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics (ISMCR), Burgese, France, 2002.

"Conceptualization and Implementation of Safety Aspects of a Surgical Robot", S.Chauhan and R. Mishra, The Sixth World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI 2002), Orlando, Florida, July 14-18, 2002.

"A Novel Analytical Method for Finger Position Regions on Grasped Object,"Yong Yu, Ying Li and Showzow Tsujio, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 937-942.

"Failure Tolerance through Active Braking: A Kinematic Approach", J.D. English and A.A. Maciejewski, The International Journal of Robotics Research, April 2001.

"Analysis of Finger Position Regions on Grasped Object with Multifingered Hand,"Yong Yu, Ying Li and Showzow Tsujio, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP), pp. 178-183.

"On the Implementation of Velocity Control for Kinematically Redundant Manipulators", J.D. English and A.A. Maciejewski, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, May 2000.
"Measuring and Reducing the Euclidean-Space Effects of Robotic Joint Failures", J.D. English and A.A. Maciejewski, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, February 2000.
"Design of Mechatronic Joint for Modular Robots", S.Srikanth and R. Mishra, Proceedings of IEEE Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), Queensland, Australia, September 19-21, 2000, pp. 331-336.

"A Novel Simplified Control Architectural Approach for Designing Modular Reconfigurable Robots", R. Mishra and S. Srikanth, IEEE Computers, Communications, and Signal Processing (CCSP), Bangalore, India, 2000.

"Design of a Modular Reconfigurable Robot", R. Mishra, S. Srikanth and M. Krishna, 16th International Conference on CARS and FOF 2000, Trinidad, West Indies, June, 2000.
"An Example of Failure Tolerance through Active Braking", J. D. English and A. A. Maciejewski, Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics, Istanbul, Turkey, May 24-26, 1999.

"Development of an Automatic Image Mosaicing System", Sojan James, Ashish Rao, Ranjan Mishra, and C. V. Jawahar, IEEE Annual Symposium on Emerging Technologies, Bangalore, India, 1999.

"Development of Robotic and Virtual Reality Systems for Betterment of Human Condition", M. Vidyasagar, CRJP Naidu, P. Narayan and R. Mishra, International Seminar on Manufacturing Technology Beyond 2000, Bangalore, India, November, 1999.

"GARUDA - Gantry Robot for Ultrasonic flaw Detection and Analysis", D.P. Kode, R. Mishra, Sartaj Singh, CRJP Naidu and M. Vidyasagar, Workshop on NDE Science and Technology for Quality Improvement, Bangalore, India, October, 1999.
"An Overview of Using Kinematic Redundancy to Create Failure Tolerant Robots", A.A. Maciejewski, V. Balakrishnan, J. D. English, M. Goel, K.N. Groom, C.L. Lewis, and R.G. Roberts, Fifth International Symposium on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 25-29, 1998.
"Euclidean-Space Measures of Robotic Joint Failures",J.D. English and A.A. Maciejewski, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque , NM , June 1998.
"Numerical Integration and Digital-Model Updates in the AIM-9X Simulation",,J.D. English and J.A. Bacon, Second Annual Systems Engineering Symposium, Raytheon, Waltham , Massachusetts , June 1998.
"A Reusable Application Interface for Rapid Tool Development", J.A. Bacon and J.D. English, Second Annual Systems Engineering Symposium, Raytheon, Waltham , Massachusetts , June 1998.
"Comparative Studies of Linear Spring with Torsional Spring for Counter Balancing of a Direct-Drive Robot", R. Mishra and G. Srinivas, International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (ISIRS), Bangalore, India, 1998.
"Fault Tolerance for Kinematically Redundant Manipulators: Anticipating Free-Swinging Joint Failures", J.D. English and A.A. Maciejewski, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, July 1997.
"Robust Controller Design for Parameterized Uncertain Plants by Synergizing QFT and Q-Parametrization", T.S. Chang and C.Y. Chang, Int. Journal of Control, 1997, Vol. 68, No. 3, 499-512.
"Robotic Workspaces after a Free-Swinging Failure", J.D. English and A.A. Maciejewski, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 19, 1997.

"Establishing and Analyzing Torsional Vibration Dynamic Model for Driving Line of Wheel Loader,"Ying Li, Zhiyan Chen, Zhili Chen and Chunxin Xu, Construction Machinery and Equipment Vol.29, No. 9, pp. 11-15, 1996

"Low-Cost Modular Force-Torque Sensor for Robots", R. Mishra, International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (ISIRS), Bangalore, India, 1995..
"Robust Controller Design for a Class of SISO Plants Using Q-Parameterization", C.Y. Chang, Master's thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1993.
"Loop Transmission Bounds for Multivariable Diagonal Control in Quantitative Feedback Theory", C.Y. Chang, T.S. Chang, C.W. Chen, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, June 24-26, 1992, pp.913-914.

Vision and Target Recognition

"Design of a Manipulator System for Hemorrhage Detection and Treatment using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)", P. Valdivia y Alvarado, C.Y. Chang, and K. Hynynen, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),pp:4529-4534, 2009.

"Quadtree-based Eigendecomposition for Pose Estimation in the Presence of Occlusion and Background Clutter," Chu-Yin Chang, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Rodney G. Roberts, Kishor Saitwal, Pattern Anal. Appl. 10(1): 15-31, 2007.

"A Vision Based Surgical Tool Tracking Approach for Untethered Surgery Simulation and Training System", J. English, C.Y. Chang, N. Tardella , J. Hu , International Conference on Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, Los Angles, CA, January 25, 2005.
"A Surgery Simulation Training System with Visual Tool Tracking", J. English, C.Y. Chang, J. Hu , International Conference on Human Machine Interfaces, Bangalore, India, December 20-23, 2004.
"Eigendecomposition-based Pose Detection in the Presence of Occlusion and Background Clutter", C.Y. Chang, A.A. Maciejewski, and V. Balakrishnan, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2001.
"Fast Eigen Space Decomposition of Correlated Images", C.Y. Chang, A.A. Maciejewski, and V. Balakrishnan, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, October, 2000.
"Eigendecomposition-based analysis of video images", C.Y. Chang, A.A. Maciejewski, and V. Balakrishnan, Proceedings of 11th SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, Jan. 26-29, 1999.
"Fast Eigen Space Decomposition of Correlated Images", C.Y. Chang, A.A. Maciejewski, and V. Balakrishnan, Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Victoria , B.C., Canada , October 12-16, 1998.
"Development and Evaluation of a Real Time SAR ATR system", M. Greenspan, L. Pham, N. Tardella,Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Radar Conference, Dallas, TX, May 11-14, 1998.

Simulation and Planning

"A Regional Anesthesia Training Simulation System", Y.J. Lim, T. Le, P. Valdivia y Alvarado, C.Y. Chang, and N. Tardella, Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) 17, Long Beach, CA., Jan, 2009.
"MR Fluid Haptic System for Regional Anesthesia Training Simulation", Y.J. Lim, P. Valdivia y Alvarado, C.Y. Chang, and N. Tardella, Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) 16, Long Beach, CA., Jan 29-Feb 01, 2008.

"Scenario-Based Virtual Open Surgical Simulation Platforms", Janey Pratt, Yi-Je Lim, Tuan Le, Neil Tardella, and James English, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2008.

"Simulation-Based Military Regional Anesthesia Training System", Y.J. Lim, T. Le, P. Valdivia y Alvarado, N. Tardella, and K. Curley, 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December, 2008.

"Localized Virtual Patient Model for Regional Anesthesia Simulation Training System", John Hu, Yi-Je Lim, Chu-Yin Chang, Neil Tardella, and Lisa Warren, Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) 15, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Series, IOS Press. Vol. 125, pp. 185-190, Long Beach, CA, Feb 06-09, 2007.

"Soft Tissue Deformation and Cutting Simulation for Multimodal Surgery Training",Y.-J. Lim, J. Hu, C.-Y. Chang, N. Tardella, CBMS 2006, Salt Lake City, UT, June 22-23, 2006, pp. 635-640.
"The Surgical Simulation and Training Markup Language (SSTML): an XML-Based Language for Medical Simulation, MMVR 14", J. Bacon, N. Tardella, J. Pratt, J. Hu and J. English, pp. 37-42, Long Beach, CA, Jan. 24-27,2006.
"Effectiveness of Haptic Feedback in Open surgery Simulation and Training Systems, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14", J. Hu, C-Y. Chang, N Tardella, et al.,pp. 213-218, Long Beach, CA, Jan. 24-27, 2006.
"Low Cost, Reduced Error Approach to Flight Software Algorithm Development", J.A. Bacon and N.D. Powell, Raytheon 2nd Joint Systems & Software Engineering Symp., Falls Church, Virginia, April 2003.
"Real-Time Nap-of-the-Earth Flight in FOCUS", J. English, N. Tardella, Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computer Generated Forces, Norfolk , VA , May 15-17, 2001.
"Genie-A Haptic Interface for Simulation of Laparoscopic Surgery", R. Mishra and S. Srikanth, IEEE/IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2000 (IROS 2000), Takamatsu, Japan, October 31-November 5, 2000.
"A Reusable Application Interface for Rapid Tool Development", J.A. Bacon and J.D. English, Second Annual Systems Engineering Symposium, Raytheon, Waltham , Massachusetts , June 1998.
"Numerical Integration and Digital-Model Updates in the AIM-9X Simulation", J.D. English and J.A. Bacon, Second Annual Systems Engineering Symposium, Raytheon, Waltham , Massachusetts , June 1998.
"Grid Generation Using an Elliptic- Hyperbolic Hybrid Method", J.A. Bacon, T.L. Henderson, and K.D. Lee, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields, Swansea, UK, April 1994.
"A Three-Dimensional Grid Adaptation Method for Navier-Stokes Solutions", W.C. Huang, J.A. Bacon, K.D. Lee, and Y.K. Choo, 32nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 94-0317, Jan. 1994.