Dissertation: Minimum Distance Queries for Haptic Rendering

Publications are listed in chronological order. Please consult the Research page for papers organized by topic.

( [C] - refereed conference paper, [B] - book chapter, [J] - journal article, [P] - poster, [N] - non-refereed publication [S] - submitted )

[C] Leslie Fleming, David Johnson, and Steve Mascaro, "Optimal Control of Multi-Input SMA Actuator Arrays Using Graph Theory: Expanding Wavefront and Simultaneous Operations", in Proceedings 2011 IEEE International Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011). pp. 780-785.
[C] Leslie Fleming, David Johnson, and Steve Mascaro, "Optimal Control of Multi-Input SMA Actuator Arrays Using Graph Theory", in Proceedings 2011 IEEE International Conf. of Robotics and Automation", Shanghai, China, May 2011.
[P] Jaeyoung Park, Andrew J. Doxon, William R. Provancher, David E. Johnson and Hong Z. Tan, "Edge Sharpness Perception with Force and Contact Location Information", Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference 2011, Instanbul, Turkey, pp. 517-522, 2011. (Winner of Best Poster Award).
[C] David E. Johnson, Tobias Martin, and Elaine Cohen, "Computing Constrained Laplacian Navigation Functions in Configuration Space", in Proceedings ASME IDETC 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2010.
[N]Addepelli, B., Pardyjak, E., Willemsen, P., and Johnson, D., "Urban Form Optimization for Air Quality Applications Using Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms", Ninth Symp. on the Urban Environment, Keystone, CO. August 1-6, 2010.
[J]Joon-Kyung Seong, David E. Johnson, Gershon Elber, and Elaine Cohen, "Critical Point Analysis Using Domain Lifting for Fast Geometry Queries", Journal of Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 47:2, 2010.
[C] A. Mahoney, J. Bross, and D. E. Johnson, "Deformable Robot Motion Planning in a Reduced-Dimension Configuration Space", ICRA 2010, May 3-8, 2010 (41% acceptance rate).
[C] Andrew J. Doxon, David E. Johnson, Hong Z. Tan, and William R. Provancher, "Force and Contact Location Shading Thresholds for Smoothly Rendering Polygonal Models", 2010 Haptics Symposium, March 25-26, 2010 (Best Paper Nomination, 30% accepted for oral presentation).
[C]Brian Gleeson and David E. Johnson, "Expressive Haptic Rendering with Cartoon-Inspired Effects", 2010 Haptics Symposium, March 25-26, 2010 (18% short papers accepted for oral presentation).
[C] Johnson, D., Riesenfeld, R., Cohen, E., and Drake, S., "Interactive Functional Reparameterization of Geometric Models," in ASME IDETC/DAC 2009, August 2009.
[P]Brian Gleeson and David E. Johnson, "Expressive Haptic Rendering with Cartoon-Inspired Effects", Poster, NPAR 2009, August 3, 2009.
[C]David E. Johnson and Elaine Cohen, "Computing Surface Offsets and Bisectors Using a Sampled Constraint Solver", Graphics Interface 2009, May 25-27, 2009.
[N]Eric Pardyjak, Pete Willemsen, and David Johnson, "Optimization of Urban Designs for Air Quality and Energy Efficiency", American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. January 2009.
[C]Cristian Phipps, David E. Johnson, and Mark Minor, "Graph Search Joint Path Planning for Robot Center of Gravity Positioning", in Proceedings IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 22-26 Sept., 2008.
[B]David E. Johnson and Elaine Cohen, "Haptic Rendering of Sculptured Models", in Haptic Rendering: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications (Ming Lin and Miguel Otaduy, eds.), AK Peters, 2008.
[C]Matthew Frey, David Johnson, and John Hollerbach, "Full-Arm Haptics in an Accessibility Task," in Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems (2008 Haptics Symposium), March, 2008.
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[C]Seong, Joon-Kyung, Johnson, David E., and Cohen, Elaine, "A Higher Dimensional Formulation for Robust and Interactive Distance Queries," in ACM Solid and Physical Modeling 2006, 2006.
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[C]II, J. D. D., Cohen, E., and Johnson, D. E., "Converting Molecular Meshes into Smooth Interpolatory Spline Solid Models," in ASME IDETC/CIE 2005, 2005.
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[C]Musuvathy, S., Johnson, D. de St. Germain, H., Cohen, E., Xu, C., Riesenfeld, R., and Henderson, T. "Integrating Mulitple Engineering Resources in a Virtual Environment for Reverse Engineering Legacy Mechanical Parts,", in ASME IDETC/CIE 2005, 2005.
[J]Johnson, D. E., Willemsen, P., and Cohen, E., "6-DOF Haptic Rendering Using Spatialized Normal Cone Search," Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2005.
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[C]Johnson, D. and Cohen, E., "Distance Extrema for Spline Models Using Tangent Cones," in Graphics Interface 2005, 2005.
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[J]K. Museth, D. Breen, R. Whitaker, S. Mauch and D. Johnson, "Algorithms for Interactive Editing of Level Set Models", The International Journal of Eurographics Assoc.: Computer Graphics Forum Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 821-841, December 2005.
[C]H. James de St. Germain, Johnson, D.E., and Cohen, E., "Integrating Freeform and Feature-Based Fitting Methods," in DETC 2004, 2004.
[C]Johnson, D. and Cohen, E., "Unified Distance Queries in a Heterogeneous Model Environment," in DETC 2004, 2004.
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[C]Johnson, D. E., Willemsen, P., and Cohen, E., "A Haptic System for Virtual Prototyping of Polygonal Models," in DETC 2004, 2004.
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[C]Potter, K., Johnson, D., and Cohen, E., "Haptically Guided Filtering for Reverse Engineering," in DETC 2004, 2004.
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[C]Johnson, D. and Willemsen, P., "Accelerated Haptic Rendering of Polygonal Models through Local Descent," in Proc. Haptics Symposium 2004, IEEE, 2004.
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[C]Potter, K., Johnson, D., and Cohen, E., "Height Field Haptics," in Proc. 2003 Haptics Symposium , 2004.
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[C]Johnson, David and Willemsen, Peter, "Six Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Rendering of Complex Polygonal Models," in Proc. 2003 Haptics Symposium , 2003.
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[C]Johnson, David and Cohen, Elaine, "Spatialized Normal Cone Hierarchies," in Proc. 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Research Triangle Park, NC, March 19-21, 2001. pp. 129-134.
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[C]Nelson, D. D., Johnson, D., and Cohen, E., "Haptic Rendering of Surface-to-Surface Sculpted Model Interaction," in Proc. 8th Annual Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, (Nashville, TN), ASME, November 1999.
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[C]Johnson, David E., and Cohen, Elaine, "Bound Coherence for Minimum Distance Computations," 1999 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99), Detroit, MI USA. May 10-15. pp 1843-1848. [pdf] [ps.gz]
[C]Johnson, David E., Thompson II, Thomas V., Kaplan, Matthew, Nelson, Donald, and Cohen, Elaine, "Painting Textures with a Haptic Interface," Virtual Reality '99 (VR'99), Houston, Texas, March 13-17, 1999, pp. 282-285. [pdf]
[C]Johnson, David E., and Cohen, Elaine, "An improved method for haptic tracing of sculptured surfaces," Symp. Haptic Interfaces, Proc. ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, DSC-Vol. 64, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 15-20, 1998, pp. 243-248. [pdf]
[C]Johnson, David E., and Cohen, Elaine, `` A framework for efficient minimum distance computations,'' Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Robotics & Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May 16-21, 1998, pp. 3678-3684.
[C]Thompson II, T.V., Johnson, D.E., and Cohen, E., "Direct haptic rendering of sculptured models," Proc. Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, (Providence, RI), pp. 167-176, April 27-30, 1997. [pdf]
[C]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.
[C] Hollerbach, J.M., Cohen, E., Thompson, W.B., Freier, R., Johnson, D.E., Nahvi, A., Nelson, D.D., Thompson II, T.V., and Jacobsen, S.C., "Haptic interfacing for virtual prototyping of mechanical CAD designs," ASME Design for Manufacturing Symposium, (Sacramento, CA), Sept. 14-17, 1997.