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Prasad Atkar
PhD Student, MechE

No longer a member of RI.

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I am pursuing research in robotic motion planning applications. Coverage offset surfaces is my primary area of research.

CAD/CAM, motion planning, obstacle avoidance, and sensors

• Biorobotics - Conducting motion planning research for snake robots, mobile robots, and actuator arrays, mainly geared for scenarios where the robot does not have a priori knowledge of the world.

• Constrained Controlled Coverage - Coverage of two dimensional surfaces embedded in three dimensions with emphasis on uniform coverage.
• Controlled Coverage for Auto-Body Painting - Speeding up of the paint spray-gun path programming by automation, achieving uniform coverage.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Paint Deposition Modeling for Trajectory Planning on Automotive Surfaces
  D.C. Conner, A.L. Greenfield, P. Atkar, A. Rizzi, and H. Choset
  IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 4, October, 2005, pp. 381 - 392. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1368 KB] copyrighted

• Towards optimal coverage of 2-dimensional surfaces embedded in IR/sup 3/: choice of start curve
  P. Atkar, H. Choset, and A. Rizzi
  2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '03), Vol. 4, October, 2003, pp. 3581 - 3587. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [562 KB] copyrighted

• Deposition Modeling for Paint Application on Surfaces Embedded in R^3
  D.C. Conner, P. Atkar, A. Rizzi, and H. Choset
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2036 KB] copyrighted

• Development of Deposition Models for Paint Application on Surfaces Embedded in R^3 for Use in Automated Path Planning
  D.C. Conner, P. Atkar, A. Rizzi, and H. Choset
  Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '02), September, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [502 KB] copyrighted

• Exact Cellular Decomposition of Closed Orientable Surfaces Embedded in R^3
  P. Atkar, H. Choset, A. Rizzi, and E. Acar
  Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '01), May, 2001. [Abstract]
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