Michael Greminger's Home Page

Photo of me in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

General Info

I am a mechanical engineering graduate student at the University of Minnesota. I am at the Advanced Microsystems Laboratory. Contact me at this email addres: grem@me.umn.edu.

Research

My research involves the process of using computer vision to extract the force field applied to an elastic object by tracking its structural deformations. Currently we are able to track and extract force information from general 2D linearly elastic objects. Our current focus is to extend this to three dimensional objects and to nonlinear materials.

Publications

Journal

Greminger, M., Nelson, B.J., " Vision-Based Force Measurement," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 290-298, March 2004.
Sun, Y., Greminger, M.A., and Nelson, B.J., "Nanopositioning of a multi-axis microactuator using visual servoing," Journal of Micromechatronics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 141-155, 2004.

Conference

Greminger, M., Sun, Y., Nelson, B.J., " Boundary Element Deformable Object Tracking with Equilibrium Constraints," ICRA 2004, New Orleans, USA.
Sun, Y., Greminger, M.A., Nelson, B.J., "Investigating Protein Structure with a Microrobotic System," ICRA 2004, New Orleans, USA.
Greminger, M., Nelson, B.J., " Modeling Elastic Objects with Neural Networks for Vision-Based Force Measurement," IROS 2003, Las Vegas, USA.
Greminger, M., Nelson, B.J., " Deformable Object Tracking Using the Boundary Element Method ," IEEE Computer Society Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2003) , June, 2003.
Sun, Y., Greminger, M., Potasek, D., Nelson, B.J. "A Visually Servoed Multi-Axis MEMS Manipulator," 8th Int. Symp. on Experimental Robotics (ISER2002), Sant'Angelo d'Ischia, Italy, July, 2002.
Greminger, M., Yang, G., Nelson, B.J., "Sensing nanonewton level forces by visually tracking structural deformations," IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2002), May, 2002.
Greminger, M., Nelson, B.J., "Vision-based force sensing at nanonewton scales," Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 4568, Oct., 2001.

Master's Thesis

" Vision-Based Force Measurement for Micromanipulation and Microrobotics," May, 2002.

Photography

Here is my photography web page. Here you will find examples of my photography and wallpaper images.

Miscellaneous

I have created a Pro/Engineer tutorial for the Pro/Engineer short course. This tutorial can be obtained here.

Links to Other Homepages

Serdar Sezen is a fellow graduate student and guitar player. His homepage is here.