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    • GPU Based Local Tone Mapping in the Context of Virtual Night Driving 

      Berssenbrأ¼gge, Jan; Bonner, Erik (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Virtual prototyping of automotive headlights requires a realistic illumination model, capable of rendering scenes of high contrast in fine detail. Due to the high dynamic range (HDR) nature of headlight beampattern data, ...
    • Handy Potter: Rapid Exploration of Rotationally Symmetric Shapes Through Natural Hand Motions 

      Vinayak,; Murugappan, Sundar; Piya, Cecil; Ramani, Karthik (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      We present a paradigm for natural and exploratory shape modeling by introducing novel 3D interactions for creating, modifying, and manipulating 3D shapes using arms and hands. Though current design tools provide complex ...
    • Intersection Free and Topologically Faithful Slicing of Implicit Solid 

      Huang, Pu; Wang, Charlie C. L.; Chen, Yong (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      We present a robust and efficient approach to directly slicing implicit solids. Different from prior slicing techniques that reconstruct contours on the slicing plane by tracing the topology of intersected line segments, ...
    • An Ontology for the Autonomous Reconfiguration of a Flexible Fixture Device 

      Gmeiner, Thomas; Shea, Kristina (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The need for reconfigurable manufacturing systems has long been recognized as a key factor to gain the necessary flexibility for economical production of small batch sizes. Automation of the reconfiguration processes is a ...
    • An Experimental Study of Continuous and Discrete Visualization Paradigms for Interactive Trade Space Exploration 

      German, Brian J.; Feigh, Karen M.; Daskilewicz, Matthew J. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Software tools that enable interactive data visualization are now commonly available for engineering design. These tools allow engineers to inspect, filter, and select promising alternatives from large multivariate design ...
    • A Formal Representation of Function Structure Graphs for Physics Based Reasoning 

      Sen, Chiradeep; Summers, Joshua D.; Mocko, Gregory M. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The paper presents a formal representation for modeling function structure graphs in a consistent, grammatically controlled manner, and for performing conservationbased formal reasoning on those models. The representation ...
    • A Three Dimensional Adaptive Mesh Generation Approach Using Geometric Modeling With Multi Regions and Parametric Surfaces 

      Miranda, Antonio C. O.; Lira, William W. M.; Cavalcante; Sousa, Rafael A.; Martha, Luiz F. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This work presents a methodology for adaptive generation of 3D finite element meshes using geometric modeling with multiregions and parametric surfaces, considering a geometric model described by curves, surfaces, and ...
    • A Knowledge Driven, Network Based Computational Framework for Product Development Systems 

      Yassine, Ali A.; Bradley, Joe A. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Today's fastpaced product development (PD) environment brings many new challenges to the PD community. These challenges are mainly due to a drastic increase in the scale and complexity of engineered systems, which require ...
    • Knowledge Support System for Aesthetics in Product Design 

      Soni, Sitaram; Khanna, Pritee; Tandon, Puneet (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The research described is the initial efforts to develop knowledge based support system to the aesthetic design in industrial products. The methodology takes into account the cognition process during the design generation ...
    • Precise Quantitative Analysis of Probabilistic Business Process Model and Notation Workflows 

      Herbert, Luke; Sharp, Robin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      We present a framework for modeling and analysis of realworld business workflows. We present a formalized core subset of the business process modeling and notation (BPMN) and then proceed to extend this language with ...
    • Physics Based Reasoning in Conceptual Design Using a Formal Representation of Function Structure Graphs 

      Sen, Chiradeep; Summers, Joshua D.; Mocko, Gregory M. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper validates that a previously published formal representation of function structure graphs actually supports the reasoning that motivated its development in the first place. In doing so, it presents the algorithms ...
    • Ontology Based Knowledge Representation for Obsolescence Forecasting 

      Zheng, Liyu; Nelson, III ,Raymond; Terpenny, Janis; Sandborn, Peter (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The impact and pervasiveness of diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS) obsolescence are increasing due to rapidly advancing technologies which shorten the procurement lives of hightech parts. For ...
    • Feature Based Solid Model Reconstruction 

      Wang, Jun; Gu, Dongxiao; Gao, Zhanheng; Yu, Zeyun; Tan, Changbai; Zhou, Laishui (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      In this paper, we propose an effective solution to reconstruct solid models of existing objects. Specifically, we convert the model reconstruction problem into the issue of feature parameter extraction, and thereby design ...
    • Assembly Free Large Scale Modal Analysis on the Graphics Programmable Unit 

      Yadav, Praveen; Suresh, Krishnan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Popular eigensolvers such as blockLanczos require repeated inversion of an eigenmatrix. This is a bottleneck in largescale modal problems with millions of degrees of freedom. On the other hand, the classic Rayleigh–Ritz ...
    • Complete High Dimensional Inverse Characterization of Fractal Surfaces and Volumes 

      Michopoulos, John G.; Iliopoulos, Athanasios (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      In the present paper, we are describing a methodology for the determination of the complete set of parameters associated with the WeierstrassMandelbrot (WM) function that can describe a fractal scalar field distribution ...
    • Evaluation of System Directed Multimodal Systems for Vehicle Inspection 

      Cairco Dukes, Lauren; Banic, Amy Ulinski; McClendon, Jerome; Bloodworth Pence, Toni; Mathieson, James; Summers, Joshua; Hodges, Larry F. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Multimodal systems have been previously used as an aid to improve quality and safety inspection in various domains, though few studies have evaluated these systems for accuracy and user comfort. Our research aims to combine ...
    • Development of Virtual Ping-Pong Game with 6-DOF Tracking System 

      Tai-Hong Kuo; Chia-Chang Tsai; Jing-Jing Fang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)
      This study presents a novel computer-based virtual ping-pong game. The integrated system employs a multimedia paddle and a tracking device on PC to generate a more sophisticated 6-degree-of-freedom ...
    • A Contribution for Virtual Prototyping of Mechatronic Systems Based on Real-Time Distributed High Level Architecture 

      H. J. Hadj-Amor; T. Soriano (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)
      Mechatronics is the integration of different sciences and techniques of mechanical engineering, automatic control, electronics, and informatics. The rapid evolution of the market competitors requires ...
    • Semantic Applications Enabling Reasoning in Product Assembly Ontologies—Moving Past Modeling 

      Lijuan Zhu; Uma Jayaram; OkJoon Kim (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)
      In this paper, the authors postulate an approach to introduce reasoning capabilities into ontologies in the product assembly domain in order to truly exploit these logic-based and formal ...
    • Representation, Generation, and Analysis of Mechanical Assembly Sequences With k-ary Operations 

      Haixia Wang; Dariusz Ceglarek (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)
      A new methodology is presented to generate all of the assembly sequences for a production system configured as a N-station assembly line with kn (n = 1, 2,…, N) parts or subassemblies to ...