Publications

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, N. C. MacDonald, G. T. A. Kovacs, J. W. Suh, Computational Methods for Design and Control of MEMS Micromanipulator Arrays, In IEEE Computer Science and Engineering, pages 17-29, January-March 1997.
• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald. N. C. MacDonald, Upper and Lower Bounds for Programmable Vector Fields with Applications to MEMS and Vibratory Plate Parts Feeders, In Mark Overmars and Jean-Paul Laumond, editors, Algorithms for Robotic Motion and Manipulation, pages 255-276, A. K. Peters, Wellesley, MA 02181, 1997.
• K.-F. Böhringer, Russell Brown, Bruce Donald, Jim Jennings, and Daniela Rus, Distributed Robotic Manipulation: Experiments in Minimalism, In O. Khatib et al., editors, Experimental Robotics IV, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 223, pages 11-25, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1997.

  Submitted for review:

• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, D. Halperin, On the Area Bisectors of a Polygon, Submitted for review to Discrete and Computational Geometry, September 1997.
• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, N. C. MacDonald, Programmable Vector Fields for Distributed Manipulation, with Applications to MEMS Actuator Arrays and Vibratory Parts Feeders, Submitted for review to the International Journal of Robotics Research, August 1996.
• K.-F. Böhringer, V. Bhatt, B. R. Donald, K. Y. Goldberg, Sensorless Manipulation Using Transverse Vibrations of a Plate, Submitted for review to Algorithmica, November 1996.

  Refereed Conference Papers (Selection)

• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, D. Halperin, On the Area Bisectors of a Polygon, Second CGC Workshop on Computational Geometry, Duke University, Durham, NC. (October 1997).
• K.-F. Böhringer, M. Cohn, K. Y. Goldberg, R. Howe, A. Pisano, Electrostatic Self-Assembly Aided by Ultrasonic Vibration, To be presented at AVS'97 - American Vacuum Society National Symposium on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) , San Jose, CA (October 1997).
• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, D. Halperin, The Area Bisectors of a Polygon and Force Equilibria in Programmable Vector Fields, 13th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry , Nice, France (June 1997).
• K.F. Böhringer, J. F. Suh, B. R. Donald, G. T. A. Kovacs, Vector Fields for Task-level Distributed Manipulation: Experiments with Organic Micro Actuator Arrays, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 1779-1786, Albuquerque, New Mexico (April 1997).
• K.F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, N. C. MacDonald, What Programmable Vector Fields Can (and Cannot) Do: Force Field Algorithms for MEMS and Vibratory Plate Parts Feeders, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 1996).
• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, N. C. MacDonald, Single-Crystal Silicon Actuator Arrays for Micro Manipulation Tasks, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), San Diego, California (February 1996).
• R. Prasad, K.-F. Böhringer, N. C. MacDonald, Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of SCS Latching Snap Fasteners for Micro Assembly, Proc. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), San Francisco, California (November 1995).
• N. C. MacDonald, S. G. Adams, A. A. Ayon, K.-F. Böhringer, L.-Y. Chen, J. H. Das, D. Haronian, W. Hofmann, X. T. Huang, A. Jazairy, R. E. Mihailovich, S. A. Miller, I. Ogo, R. Prasad, B. W. Reed, M. T. A. Saif, K. A. Shaw, R. Y. Webb, Y. Xu, Micromachined Microdevices and Microinstruments, Proc. Micro- And Nano-Engineering (MNE), Aix-en-Provence, France (September 1995). Received the Best Conference Poster Award (2nd prize).
• K.-F. Böhringer, Vivek Bhatt, and Ken Goldberg, Sensorless Manipulation Using Transverse Vibrations of a Plate, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Nagoya, Japan (May 1995). Nominated for Best Conference Paper Award.
• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, R. Mihailovich, and N. C. MacDonald, Sensorless Manipulation Using Massively Parallel Microfabricated Actuator Arrays, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), San Diego, CA (May 1994). Nominated for Best Conference Paper Award.
• K.-F. Böhringer, B. R. Donald, R. Mihailovich, and N. C. MacDonald, A Theory of Manipulation and Control for Microfabricated Actuator Arrays, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Oiso, Japan (January 1994).
• K.-F. Böhringer, A Computational Approach to the Design of Micromechanical Hinged Structures, Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, Montréal, Québec, Canada (May 1993).
• K.-F. Böhringer and F. Newbery Paulisch, Using Constraints to Achieve Stability in Automatic Graph Layout Algorithms, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seattle, WA (April 1990).

  Other Publications

• K.-F. Böhringer, Stabilität von Algorithmen für Graphenumbruch, Diplom thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (July 1989).

• my Cornell Computer Science Technical Reports.

• my ftp directory.