Dan S. Reznik's Selected Publications

Vibrations-Based Planar Part Manipulation

• D. Reznik, J. Canny, N. Alldrin, "Leaving on a Plane Jet", 2001 Int. Conf. on Intell. Robots & Systems (IROS), Maui, Hawaii, October 2001. PDF
• D. Reznik, "The Universal Planar Manipulator", Ph.D. Thesis, UC-Berkeley, EECS, October 2000. PDF PS
• D. Reznik, J. Canny, "C'mon Part, do the Local Motion!", 2001 IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Autom. (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, May 2001. PDF PS
• D. Reznik, E. Moshkovich, and J. Canny, "Building a Universal Part Manipulator", Distributed Manipulation, K. Bohringer and H. Choset (editors), Kluwer Academic Press, 1999. Also appeared in: Workshop on Distributed Manipulation, 1999 IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Autom. (ICRA), Detroit, MI, May, 1999. PDF PS
• D. Reznik, J. Canny, "A Flat Rigid Plate is a Universal Planar Manipulator", 1998 IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Autom. (ICRA), Leuven, Belgium, April 1998. Anton Phillips best student paper award finalist. PDF PS
• D. Reznik, J. Canny, "The Coulomb Pump: A Novel Parts Feeding Method using a Horizontally-Vibrating Surface", 1998 IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Autom. (ICRA), Leuven, Belgium, April 1998. Best conference paper award nominee. PDF PS
• D. Reznik and J. Canny, "Universal Part Manipulation in the Plane with a Single Horizontally-Vibrating Plate", 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), Houston, TX, March, 1998. Also appeared in: Robotics, the Algorithmic Perspective, P. Agarwal, L. Kavraki, M. Mason (editors), A. K. Peters, Natick MA, 1998. PDF PS
• D. Reznik, J. Canny, and K. Goldberg, "Analysis of Part Motion on a Longitudinally Vibrating Plate", 1997 Int. Conf. on Intell. Robots & Systems (IROS), Grenoble, France, September 1997. Also appeared in: D. Reznik and J. Canny, "Dynamics of Part Motion on a Longitudinally Vibrating Parts Feeder", Special Session on Micro Assembly (co-organizer), 1997 IEEE Int. Symp. on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP), Marina del Rey, CA, August, 1997. PDF PS

Dynamic Simulation & Design Optimization

• D. Reznik and J. Canny, "Design Verification and Optimization of Novel Parts Feeders with the Impulse Dynamic Simulator", Workshop on Dynamic Simulation: Methods and Applications (co-organizer), 1997 Int. Conf. on Intell. Robots & Systems (IROS), Grenoble, France, September 1997. PDF PS
• D. Reznik, S. Brown, and J. Canny, "Dynamic Simulation as a Design Tool for a Microactuator Array", 1997 IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Autom. (ICRA), Albuquerque, NM, April 1997. PDF PS
• D. Reznik and C. Laugier, "Dynamic Simulation and Virtual Control of a Deformable Fingertip", 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Autom. (ICRA), Minneapolis, MN, April 1996. PDF PS

Sensor-Based Motion Planning

• D. Reznik and V. Lumelsky, "Sensor-Based Motion Planning in Three Dimensions for a Highly-Redundant Snake Robot", Journal of Advanced Robotics, special issue on Highly Redundant Manipulators, volume 9, no. 3, edited by Hisato Kobayashi, 1995.
• D. Reznik and V. Lumelsky, "Multi-Finger Hugging: a Robust Approach to Sensor-Based Grasp Planning", 1994 IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Autom. (ICRA), San Diego, CA, May 1994. Best student paper award nominee. PDF PS
• D. Reznik and V. Lumelsky, "Sensor-Based Motion Planning for Highly Redundant Kinematic Structures, II. The Case of a Snake Arm Manipulator", 1993 IEEE Int. Conf. on Rob. & Autom. (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, May 1993. Also appeared in: Technical Report RL-93002, Robotics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1993. PDF PS
• D. Reznik and V. Lumelsky, "Motion Planning with Uncertainty for Highly Redundant Kinematic Structures, I. Free Snake Motion", 1992 Int. Conf. on Intell. Robots & Systems (IROS), Raleigh, NC, Sep. 1992. Also appeared in: Technical Report RL-91001, Robotics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 1991.

Simulation & Graphics Library

• S. Hert and D. Reznik, "The Simulation Library: A Basis for Animation Programs (Version 2.0)", Technical Report RL-95002, Robotics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 1995. PDF PS
• S. Hert and D. Reznik, and K. Harinarayan, "The Simulation Library: A Basis for Robot Animation Programs", Technical Report RL-93001, Robotics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison,May, 1993.

Network Modelling (undergraduate research)

• W. Larue, E. Komp, S. Schaffer, V. Frost, K. Shanmugan, and D. Reznik, "A Block Oriented Paradigm for Modeling Communication Networks", 1990 IEEE Military Communications Conference, Monterey, CA, Sep. 1990.
• D. Reznik and V. Frost, "A BONeS Model of a Telephone System", Technical Report TISL-8670-5, Telecommunications and Information Sciences Laboratory (TISL), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Aug. 1990.
• D. Reznik and V. Frost, "An X.25 Network Model Using BONeS", Technical Report TISL-8670-2, Telecommunications and Information Sciences Laboratory (TISL), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, May 1990.