Home Page for Aaron Wallack

PhD Recipient
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California at Berkeley
currently at Cognex Corporation,
1 Vision Drive, Natick, Massachusetts
awallack@cognex.com

Advisor: John Canny

Patents:

• 5,546,314 Brost, Goldberg, Wallack, and Canny "Processor and Method for Developing a Set of Admissible Fixture Designs for a Workpiece."

MPeg Movies:

• Conveyor Pick ( 4.9M Mpeg | 1.0M Mpeg )
• Modular Fixturing Demo ( 4.3M Mpeg | 1.5M Mpeg )
• Fixture Vise Simulation ( 1.1M Mpeg | 0.9M Mpeg | 1.4M Mpeg )

Research Projects

• Recognition and Localization Using Crossbeam Sensing
• Recognition and Localization Using Scanning Beam Sensing
• Synthesizing Fixtures Using a Modular Fixture Kit
• Calibration Techniques
• Duality Between Object Recognition and Modular Fixturing
• Complete Indexing Tables
• Efficient Indexing Techniques

Cool Net Sites

• Live 105
• One Handy Design Inc.

Publications

Nominated for Anton Phillips Best Student Paper Award: Modular Fixture Design for Generalized Polyhedra A. Wallack and J. Canny, In Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1996

Generic Fixture Design Algorithms for Minimal Modular Fixture Toolkits A. Wallack, In Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1996

Calibration of Four Degree of Freedom Robotworld Modules A. Wallack and I. Mazon, In Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1996

Complete Indexing Strategies for Sparse Sensing Techniques A. Wallack and J. Canny, In Proceedings, International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning.

Ph.D. Thesis: Algorithms and Techniques for Manufacturing A. Wallack,

Planning for Modular and Hybrid Fixtures A. Wallack and J. Canny, to be published in Algorithmica Special Issue on Manufacturing Applications of Computational Geometry

Nominated for Anton Phillips Best Student Paper Award: Object Recognition and Localization from Scanning Beam Sensors A. Wallack and J. Canny, In Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Nagoya, Japan, May 1995
Efficient Indexing Techniques for Model Based Sensing A. Wallack and J. Canny, In Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Seattle, Washington, June 1994
Planning for Modular and Hybrid Fixtures A. Wallack and J. Canny In Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. San Diego, California, May 1994
Object Localization Using Crossbeam Sensing A. Wallack, J. Canny, and D. Manocha In Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Atlanta, Georgia, May 1993
A Geometric Algorithm for Beam Scanning A. Wallack and J. Canny In Proceedings, SPIE Vision Geometry II Boston, Massachusetts, October 1993
Robust Algorithms for Object Localization (52 pages Postscript, 474K: Compressed File) A. Wallack and D. Manocha Technical Report, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Optical Position Sensing for Closed-Loop Control of Linear Stepper Motors, E. Nicolson, S. Burgett, A. Wallack, and B. Yekutiely, In Proceedings, JSME International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics, Tokyo, Japan, pp 322-327, August 1993.

Last update: 18 February 1995