Symmetry Groups and Robotic Assembly Planning

(last updated June 2000)

  • Liu, Y. ``Symmetry Groups in Robotics Assembly Planning and Specifications'', the Mathematical Methods in Technology series, MARCEL DEKKER, INC., 270 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10016. To appear.

  • Yanxi Liu ``A Group Theoretical Formalization of Contact Motion'', 2nd International Workshop on Algebraic Frames for the Perception Action Cycle (AFPAC) September 2000, Kiel, Germany.
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  • Liu, Y., ``A Computational Representation for Rigid and Articulated Assembly'' , IEEE International Symposium of Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP97), CA, August, 1997

  • Liu, Y. and Popplestone, R. J. ``From Symmetry Groups to Stiffness Matrices", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2375 - 2380, Nice, France, May 1992.

  • Liu, Y. and Popplestone, R. J. ``Symmetry Groups in Analysis of Assembly Kinematics", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 572 -- 577, Sacramento, CA, April 1991.

  • Liu, Y. and Popplestone, R.J. ``Symmetry Constraint Inference in Assembly Planning", Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90), pp. 1038 -- 1044, Boston, MA, July 29 -- August 3, 1990.

  • Liu, Y. ``A Justification for the Characteristic Invariant Representation of TR Subgroups of the Proper Euclidean Group", the fifth SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Atlanta, GA, June 11 -- 14, 1990.

  • Liu, Y. and Popplestone, R. J. ``Planning for Assembly from Solid Models", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 222 -- 227, Scottsdale, AZ, May 1989.