Professor, School of Computing
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1978
Professor Hollerbach's interests
include robotics and virtual reality. The focus in virtual reality is
on improving the transparency and sense of immersion through better
mechanical interfaces and their control, better visual and auditory
displays, and sensorimotor integration. Haptic interfaces are being
employed for virtual manipulation of mechanical CAD models and for
scientific visualization. The Treadport locomotion interface is being
employed for walk-through synthetic environments such as outdoor
terrain. In robotics, autonomous and teleoperated grasping is pursued
with a pair of left/right Utah/MIT Dextrous Hands. Teleoperation
research is focusing on the use of the Sarcos Dextrous Arm Master and
Slave, an advanced hydraulic telemanipulator.
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Christensen, R., Hollerbach, J.M., Xu, Y., and Meek, S., ``Inertial
force feedback for the Treadport locomotion interface,'' Presence:
Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 9, 2000, pp. 1-14.
- Durbeck, L.J.K., Macias, N.J., Weinstein, D.M., Johnson, C.R.,
and Hollerbach, J.M., `` SCIRun haptic display for scientific
visualization,'' Phantom Users Group Meeting, Dedham, MA,
September 1998.
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Hollerbach, J.M., Thompson, W.B., and Shirley, P, ``The convergence of
robotics, vision, and computer graphics for user information,''
Intl. J. Robotics Research, 18, 1999, pp. 1088-1100.
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Nahvi, A., Nelson, D.D., Hollerbach, J.M., and Johnson, D.E., ``Haptic
manipulation of virtual mechanisms from mechanical CAD designs,''
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Robotics & Automation, Leuven, Belgium,
May 16-21, 1998, pp. 375-380.
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Xu, Y., and Hollerbach, J.M., ``A robust ensemble data method for
identification of human joint mechanical properties during
movement,,'' IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, 46, 1999,
pp. 409-419.