Product personalization enabled by assembly architecture and cyber physical systems
Changbai Tan, S. Jack Hu, Haseung Chung, Kira Barton, Cecil Piya, Karthik Ramani and Mihaela Banu
Published in: CIRP Annals 66.1 (2017): 33-36.
Shape Structuralizer: Design, Fabrication, and User-driven Iterative Refinement of 3D Mesh Models
Subramanian Chidambaram, Yunbo Zhang, Venkatraghavan Sundararajan, Niklas Elmqvist, and Karthik Ramani
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Deep Learning 3D Shapes Using ALT-AZ Anisotropic 2-Sphere Convolution
Liu, Min, Fupin Yao, Chiho Choi, Sinha Ayan, and Karthik Ramani
Accepted, to appear in proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), New Orleans, May 6-9, 2019
Manufacturing Research Seminar Series – Smart Manufacturing February 15
Professor Karthik Ramani is going to provide an invited lecture at University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in Smart Manufacturing on February 15 2019.
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Tech Knowledge Is Power – by Mung Chiang, Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University
“As our world is re-engineered, more people need to learn how engineers analyze, design and operate. Engineering concepts such as modular design and feedback control… Continue reading...
Manufacturing a Future – Indiana Chamber of Commerce BizVoice highlights NSF Factory of the Future project in Jan/Feb 2019 publication
Indiana Chamber of Commerce BizVoice (Click here to open the website) highlights NSF Factory of the Future project in January/February 2019 publication. The goal of… Continue reading...
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GERI 2018 Summer Workshops
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STAR I Workshop
Over the summer of 2018, the C Design Lab conducted a two-week Toy Design workshop for students in grades… Continue reading...
SynchronizAR: Instant Synchronization for Spontaneous and Spatial Collaborations in Augmented Reality
Ke Huo, Tianyi Wang, Luis Paredes, Ana M Villanueva, Yuanzhi Cao, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the 31th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2018, Oct. 14-17, Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242595
Alumni Success Story – You Wu – Robot Daisy and Pipe Leak Detection
This little robot swims through pipes and finds out if they’re leaking
Lighthouse, U.S. winner of the James Dyson Award, looks like a badminton birdie… Continue reading...
C Design Lab to prepare manufacturers, workers for the ‘factory of the future’
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Today’s manufacturers struggle to keep pace with rapid changes in technology because of the inability to adapt and the new skills… Continue reading...
Purdue Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series – Professor Neil Gershenfeld
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. His unique laboratory is breaking down boundaries between the digital and physical… Continue reading...
Integrating environmental sustainability in undergraduate mechanical engineering courses using guided discovery instruction
Devarajan Ramanujan, Ninger Zhou & Karthik Ramani
Journal of cleaner production
MultiSoft: Soft Sensor Enabling Real-Time Multimodal Sensing with Contact Localization and Deformation Classification
Sang Ho Yoon, Luis Paredes, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT Volume 2 Issue 3, UbiComp 2018)
Ana Villanueva has been accepted into the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop at MIT
Ana Villanueva
Ana Villanueva has been accepted into the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 25-26, 2018. The workshop is… Continue reading...
2017 ASME Editors’ Choice Award to ‘The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet’ Publication
Joran Booth, Jeffrey Alperovich, Pratik Chawla, Jiayan Ma, Tahira Reid, and Karthik Ramani
ASME’s Journal of Mechanical Design has given its 2017 Editors’ Choice Award to The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet by Joran Booth, Jeffrey Alperovich, Pratik… Continue reading...
Plain2Fun Publication Receives an Honorable Mention at DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) Conference
Tianyi Wang, Ke Huo, Pratik Chawla, Guiming Chen, Siddharth Banerjee, Karthik Ramani
Plain2Fun: Augmenting Ordinary Objects with Interactive Functions by Auto-Fabricating Surface Painted Circuits; receives an honorable mention among 400+ total submissions at the proceedings of the… Continue reading...
Prestigious Publication: Gauss’s law for networks directly reveals community boundaries – Featured in Scientific Reports
Download: Nature – Gauss’s Law for networks directly reveals community boundaries… Continue reading...
Gauss’s law for networks directly reveals community boundaries
Ayan Sinha, David F. Gleich & Karthik Ramani
The study of network topology provides insight into the function and behavior of physical, social, and biological systems. A natural step towards discovering the organizing… Continue reading...
Toying With Design: Experiencing Design for Rapid Prototyping Using Mini-Fabrication Exercises
Siddharth Banerjee, Caleb Carithers, Aniket Chavan, Devarajan Ramanujan and Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2018
August 26-29, 2018, Quebec City, Canada… Continue reading...
Plain2Fun: Augmenting Ordinary Objects with Interactive Functions by Auto-Fabricating Surface Painted Circuits
Tianyi Wang, Ke Huo, Pratik Chawla, Guiming Chen, Siddharth Banerjee, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the 2018 DIS Designing Interactive Systems Conference, June 9-13, 2018, Hong Kong, China, with honourable mention.
Scenariot: Spatially Mapping Smart Things Within Augmented Reality Scenes
Ke Huo, Yuanzhi Cao, Sang Ho Yoon, Zhuangying Xu, Guiming Chen, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, April 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada
C Design team won UIST 2017 student contest — ‘Best Implementation Award’
Yuanzhi Cao, Zhuangying Xu
Yuanzhi Cao and Zhuangying Xu, representing the C Design team, have won the ‘Best Implementation Award’ (by judges) at the student contest of 2017 UIST.… Continue reading...
Ani-Bot: A Modular Robotics System Supporting Creation, Tweaking, and Usage with Mixed-Reality Interactions
Yuanzhi Cao, Zhuangying Xu, Terrell Glenn, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani
Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions (TEI 2018) March 18-21, Stockholm, Sweden
3D Object Classification via Spherical Projections
Zhangjie Cao, Qixing Huang, Karthik Ramani
In proceeding of International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2017), Spotlight Presentation. Qingdao, China, October 12-14, 2017
Ani-Bot: A Mixed-Reality Ready Modular Robotics System
Yuanzhi Cao, Zhuangying Xu, Terrell Glenn, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST 2017 Poster Abstract) , Quebec City, Canada, 2017
Robust Hand Pose Estimation during the Interaction with an Unknown Object
Chiho Choi, Sang Ho Yoon, Chin-Ning Chen, Karthik Ramani
2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Learning Hand Articulations by Hallucinating Heat Distribution
Chiho Choi, Sangpil Kim, Karthik Ramani
2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
DESIGN PATTERNS FOR VISUALIZATION-BASED TOOLS IN SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGN
Ramanujan D., Bernstein W.Z., & Ramani K.
Design Patterns for Visualization-based Tools in Sustainable Product Design, Proceedings of the 2017 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities.
Ramanujan D., Bernstein W.Z., Chandrasegaran SK., & Ramani K.
ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2017
The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet (Conference)
Joran W. Booth; Jeffrey Alperovich; Tahira N. Reid; Karthik Ramani
Proc. ASME. 50190; Volume 7: 28th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, V007T06A041.August 21, 2016 DETC2016-60407 doi: 10.1115/DETC2016-60407
The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet (Journal)
Joran W. Booth; Jeffrey Alperovich; Pratik Chawla; Jiayan Ma; Tahira Reid; Karthik Ramani
J. Mech. Des. 2017; MD-17-1084 doi: 10.1115/1.4037251
SurfNet in Science news !
Artificial intelligence can turn 2D photos into real-world objects, By Matthew Hutson
Secure Collaboration in Engineering Systems Design
Wang S., Bhandari S., Chaduvula S. Chaitanya, Atallah M., Panchal J. H., and Ramani K
J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng 17(4), 041010 (Jun 15, 2017) (11 pages) Paper No: JCISE-16-2090; doi: 10.1115/1.4036615
4-H Camp teams and coached of the Design Workshop Hosted by C Design lab
4-H Camp teams and coached of the Design Workshop Hosted by C Design lab on 14th, 15th and 16th of June, 2017.
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The Influence of Toy Design Activities on Middle School Students’ Understanding of the Engineering Design Processes
Ninger Zhou, Nielsen L. Pereira, Tarun Thomas George, Jeffrey Alperovich, Joran Booth, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Jeffrey David Tew, Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Karthik Ramani
Journal of Science Education and Technology (2017): 1-13.
Meeting with C Design Lab Alums Dr. Devarajan and Sinha at MIT coffee shop
Congratulations to C Design Lab Alums Dr. Devarajan and Sinha on their newly accepted positions.… Continue reading...
Toy Design Workshops
We want children to learn through experience. They need to prototype to think. Authentic and active learning connects to their lives and provides a strong… Continue reading...
SurfNet: Generating 3D shape surfaces using deep residual networks
Sinha, A., Unmesh, A., Huang, Q., and Ramani, K
In proceedings of CVPR, 2017.