by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jul 20, 2019 | 2019, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications
Rapid advances in production systems’ models and technology continually challenge manufacturers preparing for the factories of the future. To address the complexity issues typically coupled with the improvements, we have developed a brain-inspired model for production...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jun 27, 2019 | 2019, Featured Publications, Future of Work, Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, Information and Intelligent Systems, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Publications, Recent Publications, Yuanzhi Cao
We present V.Ra, a visual and spatial programming system for robot-IoT task authoring. In V.Ra, programmable mobile robots serve as binding agents to link the stationary IoTs and perform collaborative tasks. We establish an ecosystem that coherently connects the three...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | May 19, 2019 | 2019, Future of Work, Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, Information and Intelligent Systems, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Recent Publications, Yuanzhi Cao
We present V.Ra, a visual and spatial programming system for robot-IoT task authoring. In V.Ra, programmable mobile robots serve as binding agents to link the stationary IoTs and perform collaborative tasks. We establish an ecosystem that coherently connects the three...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Feb 11, 2019 | 2019, Featured Publications, Karthik Ramani, Recent Publications, Subramanian Chidambaram, Yunbo Zhang
Current Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools lack proper support for guiding novice users towards designs ready for fabrication. We propose Shape Structuralizer (SS), an interactive design support system that repurposes surface models into structural constructions using...
by Min Liu | Feb 11, 2019 | 2019, Fupin Yao, Karthik Ramani, Min Liu, Recent Publications
The ground-breaking performance obtained by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image processing tasks is inspiring research efforts attempting to extend it for 3D geometric tasks. One of the main challenge in applying CNNs to 3D shape analysis is how to...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Feb 8, 2019 | Karthik Ramani, News
Professor Karthik Ramani is going to provide an invited lecture at University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in Smart Manufacturing on February 15 2019. Click here for more details…
