Publications of Burchan Bayazit

• Solving Motion Planning Problems by Iterative Relaxation of Constraints, O. Burchan Bayazit, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, May 2003. ( pdf)
  
  
  
  
  
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• Enhancing Randomized Motion Planners: Exploring with Haptic Hints O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato, Autonomous Robots Journal, Special Issue on Personal Robotics, 10 2001, pp. 163--174.     (ps, pdf)
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• Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods, Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Lucia K. Dale, Chris Jones, Daniel Vallejo, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 16(4), August 2000, pp.442-447. (ps, pdf)
  
  

• Better Flocking Behaviors using Rule-Based Roadmaps, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) , December 2002. (pdf)
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• Better Group Behaviors in Complex Environments using Global Roadmaps O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato Proceedings of the 2002 Artificial Life (ALIFE) , December 2002, to appear. (pdf)
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• Roadmap-Based Flocking for Complex Environments O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato Proceedings of the 2002 Pacific Graphics , December 2002, to appear. (pdf)
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• Probabilistic Roadmap Motion Planning for Deformable Objects, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , May 2002, pp. 2126-2133. (ps, pdf)
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• Ligand Binding with OBPRM and Haptic User Input, O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song and Nancy M. Amato, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01), May 2001, pp. 954--959. (ps, pdf)
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• Enhancing Randomized Motion Planners: Exploring with Haptic Hints, O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato, Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'00), April 2000, pp. 529-536. (ps, pdf)
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• OBPRM: An Obstacle-Based PRM for 3D Workspaces, Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Lucia K. Dale, Chris Jones, Daniel Vallejo, Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR'98), March 1998, pp. 155-168. ( ps, pdf )
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• Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods, Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Lucia K. Dale, Chris Jones, Daniel Vallejo, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'98), May 1998, pp. 630-637. (ps, pdf)
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  Other Publications and Posters
  
  

• Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science,Texas A&M University, May 1998 ( ps, pdf )
  
  

• Ligand Binding with OBPRM and Haptic User Input: Enhancing Automatic Motion Planning with Virtual Touch, O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato, Currents in Computational Molecular Biology, ed. El-Mabrouk, Lengauer, Sankoff, Les Publications CRM, Montreal, Canada, April 2001. Also poster presented at Research on Comp. Mol. Biology (RECOMB) 2001
  
  

• Force Feedback Applications in Motion Planning, O. Burchan Bayazit,Symposium on Computer Graphics & Digital Art, TEXGRAPH'00, Texas A&M University, May 2000.
  
  

• Providing Haptic 'Hints' to Automatic Motion Planners, O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato, Phantom Users Group Workshop (PUG99), October 1999. ( ps, pdf )
  
  

• Providing Haptic 'Hints' to Automatic Motion Planners, Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Kyunghwan Kim, Wookho Son, Guang Song, Technical Report TR98-026, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Nov 1998 (Revised February, 1999).
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• Cooperative Motion Planning: Providing Hints to Automatic Motion Planners, Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Kyunghwan Kim, Wookho Son, Guang Song, Presentation at Workshop on Motion Support in Virtual Prototyping, Stanford University, May 1999.
  
  

• Gray Level Texture Generation by Binary Markov Random Field Model with Morphological Operations O. Burchan Bayazit, Levent Erkok, Okan Uludag, Fatos Yarman Vural, Technical Report 95-10, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, July 1995
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