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Sample of Past Academic Conference & Workshop Research Presentations

  • "Are We Accepting the Right Students to Graduate Engineering Programs: Measuring the Success of Accepted Students Via Data Envelopment Analysis", American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Pittsburgh PA, June 2008.
  • "Prototyping, Modeling, Simulation and Analysis in Robotics", American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Regional Conference, Rhode Island, 2007.
  • "Online Automation and Control: An Experiment in Distance Engineering Education", the International Remote Engineering, Virtual Instrumentation Symposium (REV 06), Maribor, Slovenia, June, 2006.
  • "An Electronic Web-Based Assessment System", The Annual New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Fall Forum, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, November, 2004.
  • "Simulation of Memory Management Using Paging Mechanisms in Operating System,'' the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) New England Section Spring Conference, Orono, Maine, May 2003.
  • "Case Studies in Web-Controlled Devices and Remote Manipulation: Laboratory-Based Distance Learning", the 8th International Symposium on Manufacturing with Applications (ISOMA '02), Florida, May 2002.
  • "Effective Simulation and Control Techniques for Alleviating Problems in Accessing High-Cost Manipulators Wireless Control Perspectives", the 8th International Symposium on Manufacturing with Applications (ISOMA '02), Orlando, Florida, May 2002.
  • "Fully Autonomous Web Based Virtual Robot Prototyping and Manufacturing", the 8th International Symposium on Manufacturing with Applications (ISOMA '02), Orlando, Florida, May 2002.
  • "Web Based Virtual Robot Prototyping and Manufacturing." International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation (IETA 2001), Cairo, Egypt, December 2001.
  • "E-Learning: Case Studies in Web-Controlled Devices and Remote Manipulation.'" International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation (IETA 2001), Cairo, Egypt, December 2001.
  • "Ergonomic and Efficient Software Alternatives for High Cost Manipulators - Direct Wireless and Networked Control Techniques." International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation (IETA 2001), Cairo, Egypt, December 2001.
  • "SKED: A Course Scheduling and Advising Software." 2001 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 2001.
  • "Distance Learning: Case Studies in Web-based Robotics, Automation and Prototyping," AMSE Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 2000.
  • "A Tool for Manipulator Design, Optimization, Simulation and Control," 8th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 2000), Hawaii, May 2000.
  • "Robotic Optimization for the Formula One Tire Changing Robot (F1-T.C.R.)," 8th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 2000), Hawaii, May 2000.
  • "A Case Study in Manipulator Optimization: The F-1-T.C.R." AMSE Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 1999.
  • "Remote Learning: A World-Wide-Web Operated Robot Arm." IEEE 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics, Istanbul, Turkey, May 1999.
  • "A Generic Simulator/Controller for Robot Manipulators." IEEE 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics, Istanbul, Turkey, May 1999.
  • "The Formula One Tire Changing Robot (F1-T.C.R.)." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA 99), May 1999, Detroit, Michigan.
  • "A PC-Based Simulator/Controller/Monitor Software for Manipulators and Electromechanical Systems." Seventh International Symposium on Robotics with Applications (ISORA '98), Alaska, May 1998.
  • "Automated Tolerance Specification Across Sensing, Design and Manufacturing." Sixth International Symposium on Manufacturing with Applications (ISOMA '98), Alaska, May 1998.
  • "Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Applications," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1997.
  • "Recovering Structure Uncertainties from Noisy Sense Data," 1997 Measurement Science Conference, Pasadena, California, January 1997.
  • "Commanding Sensors and Controlling Indoor Autonomous Mobile Robots," Presented in the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Dearborn, Michigan, September 1996.
  • "Sensing Under Uncertainty for Mobile Robots," Presented in the Second World Automation Congress, First International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC 96), Montpellier, France, May 1996.
  • "Prototyping a Three-link Robot Manipulator," Presented in the Second World Automation Congress, Sixth International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing (ISRAM 96), Montpellier, France, May 1996.
  • "Modeling and Recovering Uncertainties in Sense Date." Sixth International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics (ISMCR 96), Brussels, Belgium, May 1996.
  • "A Unifying Framework for Tolerance Analysis in Sensing, Design, and Manufacturing." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nagoya, Japan, May 1995.
  • "Discrete Event Control for Inspection and Reverse Engineering." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Diego, May 1994.
  • "Prototyping Activities in Robotics, Control, and Manufacturing," Department of Defense Software Technology Support Center (DoD STSC) Annual Symposium, Salt Lake City, April 1994.
  • "Industrial Inspection and Reverse Engineering." 1994 2nd CAD-Based Vision Workshop, Pittsburgh, February 1994.
  • "A Discrete Event Framework for Intelligent Inspection," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1993.
  • "Autonomous Observation Under Uncertainty," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nice, France, May 1992.
  • "A Model for Visual Observation Under Uncertainty," IEEE Symposium on Computer Aided Control System Design (CACSD '92), March 1992.
  • "A Model for Shape and Motion Perception," SPIE Conference on Mobile Robots, November 91.
  • "Visual Observation of A Moving Agent," The European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference (EURISCON '91), Corfu, Greece, June 1991.
  • "A Hybrid System for Computing Reachable Workspaces for Redundant Manipulators," SPIE Conference on Machine Vision Systems Integration, November 1990.
  • "Operator/System Communications: An Optimizing Decision Tool," SPIE Conference on Mobile Robots, November 1990.
  • "Structure and Motion of Entire Polyhedra," SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, November 1990.
  • "An Efficient System for 3-D Object Recognition." SPIE Conference on Three Dimensional Perception and Recognition, November 1990.
  • Structure and Motion in the "Moving Blocks World." IASTED International Conference on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, October 1990.
  • "A System for Recovering 3-D Motion and Structure." ACM 3rd International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, July 1990.
  • "Recovery of 3-D Motion and Structure by Temporal Fusion." SPIE conference on Sensor Fusion, November 1989.
  • "Pyramid Computation of the Image Flow for Fast Tracking," SPIE conference on Sensor Fusion, November 1989.