Course Schedule

Jan 10 Introduction to haptics
Jan 12 Haptic rendering, force fields
  - Salisbury et al. 2004
  - Basdogan & Srinivasan 2002
  - Otaduy & Lin 2005
Jan 17 Force fields (continued)
Jan 19 Proxy / God object
  - Zilles & Salisbury 1995
  - Ruspini et al. 1997
Jan 19 (evening session) Chai review
Jan 24 Proxy-based rendering, implicit surfaces
  - Salisbury & Tarr 1997
Jan 26 Haptic rendering tricks 1
  - Srinivasan et al. 1996
  - Ho et al. 1999
Jan 31 Haptic rendering tricks 2
  - Conti & Khatib 2005
Feb 2 Narrow phase collision detection
  - Lin & Gottschalk 1998
  - Moller 1997
  - Moller & Trumbore 1997
Feb 7 Broad phase collision detection
Feb 9 Broad phase collision detection 2
Projects Introduction
Feb 14 Haptic design - theory
Feb 16 Haptic design - practice
Feb 21 Basic dynamics
Feb 23 Dynamic simulation & deformable objects
  - Conti, Khatib, & Baur 2003
Feb 28 Six degree-of-freedom rendering 1
  - McNeely et al. 1999
  - Otaduy & Lin 2005
  - Ortega et al. 2007
Mar 1 Six degree-of-freedom rendering 2
Mar 6 Event-based haptics
  - guest lecture
  - Kuchenbecker et. al. 2006
Mar 8 Haptic device dynamics & control
  - guest lecture
Mar 13 (no lecture, project help as needed)
Mar 15 Course project presentations!

= homework out = homework due! = project due!