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Thenkurussi Kesavadas, Ph.D.


- Associate Professor


Office: 1006 Furnas Hall
Telephone: (716)645-2593 x2229
FAX:(716)645-2883

Educational Background

Ph.D., Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1995

M.Tech., Aircraft Production Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1987.

B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, University of Calicut, Kerala, India, 1985


COMPLETE C.V.


Research Area:
Subjects related to manufacturing automation, robotics and CAD. His primary research is focused on using virtual reality for engineering applications such as interactive automation of manufacturing and design processes for rapid product development.

Other:
Selected Papers, Publications, & Presentations:

Singh, T., Kesavadas, T., Mayne, R.M. Kim, J., Roy, A., "Design of Hardware/Algorithms for Enhancement of Driver-Vehicle Performance in Inclement Conditions Using a Virtual Environment" SAE Transactions - Journal of Passenger Car - Mec hanical Systems (To appear).

Kevin C., Kesavadas, T. and Mayrose, J., "Development of the Virtual Human Abdomen: Algorithms and Methodologies" ACM-SIGGRAPH, 2001, pp.170.

Khandelwal, D., and Kesavadas, T., "Computational Approach To Multi-Material Solid Freeform Fabrication Using Simulated Annealing", Journal of Materials Processing & Manufacturing Science. v 7 n 4 1999. pp 405-415.

Kesavadas, T., and Ernzer, M. "Design Of An Interactive Virtual Factory Using Cell Formation Methodologies", American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Material Handling Division, Mhd. v 5 1999. pp 201-208

Deviprasad, T. and Kesavadas, T., "VPAVE: An interactive tool for validating assembly components in virtual environment using finite element simulation", American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Material Handling Division, Mhd. v 5 1999. pp 107-116

Kesavadas, T. and Subramaniam, H., "Experimental Study Of Virtual Tools With Attributes", American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Material Handling Division, Mhd. v 5 1999. pp 11-17.

Mayrose, J., Kesavadas, T., Narayanasamy, S., "One-Dimensional Approach To Viscoelastic Material Stiffness Calculations" American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering, Bed. v 43 1999. pp 227-228.

Mayrose, J., Chugh, K., Kesavadas, T., "Material Property Determination Of Sub-Surface Objects In A Viscoelastic Environment" Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation. v 36 2000. pp 313-317.

Ernzer, M. and Kesavadas, T., "Interactive Design Of A Virtual Factory Using Cellular Manufacturing System" Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation. v 3 1999. pp 2428-2433.

Kesavadas, T., Khor, C., Subramaniam, H., Taluk, D., "Programming Of A Virtual Robot Assisted By A Neural Network For Manufacturing Applications" ASME Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks. v 7 1997. pp 879-884.

Kesavadas, T. and Subramanium, H., "Flexible Virtual Tools For Programming Robotic Finishing Operations" The Industrial Robot. v 25 n 4 1998. p 268-275.

Kesavadas, T., and Cannon, D.J., "Virtual Tools that Carry Attributes for Interactively Specifying Intermediate Manufacturing Processes," Journal of Virtual Reality Applications, Research and Development. Vol. 1 (1995), No.2, Page 71-90.

Cannon, D.J., Thomas, G., Wang, C., Kesavadas, T. "Virtual Reality Based Point-And-Direct Robotic System With Instrumented Glove" International Journal of Industrial Engineering - Applications & Practice. v 1 n 2 Jun 1994. p 139-148.

Kesavadas, T., Kuo, R J., Cannon, D J., "Intelligent Robotic Die Polishing System Using A Neural Network" Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks. v 2 1992. p 803-808.

Sharma, C. and Kesavadas, T., "Investigation of haptic framework for quantitative design analysis in virtual environments " 7th International Symposium on Virtual Systems and Multimedia 2001, Berkeley USA. (Selected to appear in the IEEE Computer Socie ty Proceedings)

Kim, Y., Kesavadas, T., Paley, S., Sanders, D., "Real Time Animation of King Ashur-nasir-pal II in the Virtual Recreated Northwest Palace" 7th International Symposium on Virtual Systems and Multimedia 2001, Berkeley USA. (Selected to appear in the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings)

Mayrose, J., Kesavadas, T., Chugh, K., Joshi, D., "A Virtual Environment for Esophageal Intubation Training" To be presented at the Medicine Meets VR conference, January 2002. A full paper selected to appear in the series titled "State of Health Techno logy and Informatics".

Sharma, C. and Kesavadas, T., "A Haptics based Virtual Environment for Engineering Design and Manufacturing applications" ASME Design and Engineering Technical Conference, Computers and Information in Engineering September 10-13, 2001, Pittsburgh USA. CD Rom Proceedings.

Kesavadas, T. and Sudhir, A., "Control of Transient Phase for Discrete Event Simulation using Computational Steering" presented at the AIM '01, July 2001 in Italy. CD-Rom Proceedings.

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