Conference Publications

Information Systems

Vished Kumar, Alejandro Bugacov, Murilo Coutinho, Robert Neches, Integrating Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Digital Libraries and Information Spaces for conducting Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations in Urban Environments, ACM GIS, November 1-6, Kansas City, Missouri, 1999. [370K pdf]
Murilo Coutinho, Robert Neches, Alejandro Bugacov, Vished Kumar, Ke-Thia Yao, In-Young Ko, Ragy Eleish, Sameer Abhinkar, GeoWorlds: A Geographically Based Situation Understanding and Information Management System for Disaster Relief Operations, 5th INternational Conference on Information Systems, Analisys and Synthesis (ISAS 99), July 31-August 4, 1999, Orlando, Florida. [317K postscript] [91K gzipped postscript] [29K pdf]
Murilo Coutinho, Robert Neches, Alejandro Bugacov, Vished Kumar, Ke-Thia Yao, In-Young Ko, Ragy Eleish, Sameer Abhinkar, GeoWorlds: A Geographically Based Information System for Situation Understanding and Management, First International Workshop on TeleGeoProcessing (TeleGeo 99), May 6-7, 1999, Lyon, France. [924K postscript] [237K gzipped postscript] [32K pdf]
Murilo G. Coutinho, Ragy Eleish, Jihie Kim, Vished Kumar, Ringo Ling, Robert Neches and Peter Will, Active Catalogs: Integrated Support for Component Engineering, Proceedings of DETC98: 1998 ASME Design and Engineering Technical Conference, September 13-16, 1998, Atlanta, GA. [620K postscript] [208K gzipped postscript] [306K pdf]

Robotics

Murilo G. Coutinho and Peter M. Will, Planning Collision-Free Smooth Paths Using Dynamic Force Fields, in preparation.

Murilo G. Coutinho and Peter M. Will, A General Theory for Positioning and Orienting 2D Polygonal or Curved Parts Using Intelligent Motion Surfaces, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 16-20, 1998, Leuven, Belgium. [336K postscript] [81K gzipped postscript] [105K pdf]

Murilo G. Coutinho and Peter M. Will, Open Loop Dynamic Control of Parts Moving on an Intelligent Motion Surface Along Paths Composed of a Sequence of Straight Line Segments, ISI Technical Report, to appear. [400K postscript] [68K gzipped postscript]

Murilo G. Coutinho and Peter M. Will, CILIA: A Programmable, Task-Level Planning, 2-D Simulation Software for Arrays of Manipulators, International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics, Brasilia, Brazil, August 1997. [584K postscript] [113K gzipped postscript] [126K pdf]

Murilo G. Coutinho and Peter M. Will, Using Dynamic Vector Force Fields to Manipulate Parts on an Intelligent Motion Surface, IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning, Marina del Rey, CA, August 1997. [394K postscript] [64K gzipped postscript] [64K pdf]

Murilo G. Coutinho, Peter M. Will and Selvan Viswanathan, The Intelligent Motion Surface: A hardware/software tool for the assembly of meso-scale devices, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 22-24, 1997. [1.06M postscript] [561K gzipped postscript] [219K pdf]

A.H. Mottaez, Murilo Coutinho and Ken Goldberg, Positioning Polygonal Parts Without Sensors, SPIE Conference on Sensors and Controls for Automated Manufacturing Systems, pp. 169-177, Boston, MA, September 7-10, 1993.

Robust Control

Murilo Coutinho and Edmund Jonckheere, SimplicialVIEW: a Software Package for Robust Stability Analysis, 34th Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 13-15, 1995. [1.43M postscript] [187K gzipped postscript]

Edmund Jonckheere, Murilo Coutinho and C.Y. Cheng, A Computational Geometry Approach to Simplicial Nyquist Maps in Robust Stability, American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June 29 to July 1, pp.1901-1905, 1994. [685K postscript] [106K gzipped postscript]

Edmund Jonckheere, C.Y. Cheng and Murilo Coutinho, A Survey of Simplicial Algorithms and Topology in Robust Control, IEEE Conference on Aerospace Control Systems, Westlake Village, CA, May 25-27, pp.400-405, 1993. [532K postscript] [122K gzipped postscript]

Parallel Processing

Murilo Coutinho, Amit Bhaya and Biswa Datta, A Parallel Algorithm for the Eigenvalue Assignment Problem in Linear Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Control and Information, Hong-Kong, June 5-9, 1995 (Invited paper). [164K postscript] [50K gzipped postscript]