WAFR'98: List of Accepted Papers

• The Computational Power of Frictional Mechanical Systems
  John Reif and Zheng Sun

• The Complexity of the Two Dimensional Curvature-Constrained Shortest-Path Problem
  John Reif and Hongyan Wang

• Spherical Shells: A Higher Order Bounding Volume for Fast Proximity Queries
  S. Krishnan, A. Pattekar, M. Lin, and D. Manocha

• Algorithms for Fence Design
  Robert Paul Berretty, Mark Overmars, and A. Frank van der Stappen

• Planning for In-Hand Dextrous Manipulation
  Moez Cherif and Kamal K. Gupta

• Models and Algorithms for the Collision of Rigid and Deformable Bodies
  A. Joukhadar, A. Deguet and C. Laugier

• Elastic bands for nonholonomic car-like robots: algorithms and combinatorial issues
  H. Jaouni, M. Khatib, and J.-P. Laumond

• Approximation and Decision Algorithms for Curvature-Constrained Path Planning: A State-Space Approach
  Jurgen Sellen

• Shape Recovery from Passive Locally Dense Tactile Data
  Michael Erdmann

• Fourier Methods on Groups: Applications in Robot Kinematics and Motion Planning
  A.B. Kyatkin and G.S. Chirikjian

• Velocity Field Design for Parcel Positioning and Orientation on the Virtual Vehicle, a Discrete Distributed Actuator Array
  Jonathan Luntz, Bill Messner, and Howie Choset

• Numerical Computation of Optimal Navigation Functions on a Simplicial Complex
  Steven M. LaValle

• On Finding Narrow Passages with Probabilistic Roadmap Planners
  David Hsu, Lydia E. Kavraki, Jean-Claude Latombe, Rajeev Motwani, and Stephen Sorkin

• Towards Planning for Elastic Objects
  Lydia E. Kavraki, Florent Lamiraux, and Christopher Holleman

• Local Observability of Rolling
  Yan-Bin Jia and Michael Erdmann

• The Self-reconfiguring Robotic Molecule
  Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus, Marsette Vona, Craig McGray

• OBPRM: An Obstacle-Based PRM for 3D Workspaces
  Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Lucia K. Dale, Christopher Jones and Daniel Vallejo

• Mechanics, Planning, and Control for Tapping
  Wesley H. Huang and Matthew T. Mason

• The Polygon Exploration Problem: A New Strategy and a New Analysis Technique
  Frank Hoffmann, Christian Icking, Rolf Klein, and Klaus Kriegel

• Issues in Nonprehensile Manipulation
  Kevin M. Lynch

• Shape Tolerance in Feeding and Fixturing
  Jingliang Chen, Ken Goldberg, Mark H. Overmars, Dan Halperin, Karl F. Bohringer, and Yan Zhuang

• Universal Part Manipulation in the Plane with a Single Horizontally-Vibrating Plate
  Dan Reznik and John Canny