Research areas
- Computational geometry algorithms for geometric problems such as:
- Rigidity, flexibility and motion for constrained structures, such as linkages (or frameworks) appearing in mechanics, robotics or CAD.
- Visibility
- Motion planning for robot arms
- Applications in:
- Robotics
- Computational Biology: computational methods for flexibility analysis and motion generation in molecules (in particular, proteins).
Funding
Currently supported by NSF CCF-0728783, NSF DMS-0714934, and DARPA 23 Mathematical Challenges.
Previous support from NSF CCF-0430990 and NSF-DARPA CARGO CCR-0310661.