Naren Vira, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: 202-806-6611
Email: [email protected]

Research Topics
Robotics and automated manufacturing; CAD/CAM; mechtonics, computer applications and software design; software fault tolerant analysis; precision measurements, modeling and simulation

Summary of Recent Research
Computer application pertaining to software reliability and fault tolerant analysis; robot pose error measurements and error modeling; speech synthesis and its application into automated manufacturing environment, Internet and its application to remote machine control for virtual factory automation; massively parallel computations and algorithm development.

Recent Publications
N. Vira, Systolic Array: Fault Tolerant Design, IASTED Conference Proceedings, July 1999.

N. Vira, Implementation and Exploitation of Massively Parallel Computational Techniques for Physical Modeling and Simulation, U.S. Army Report, U.S. Army Research Office, Nov. 1997, pp. 36-38.

R. Biggers (*) and N. Vira, Distance Learning Modules on Robot Metrology, Proceedings of ASME Department Head Conference, March 1997, pp. 173-177.

R. Bsbukuttan(*) and N. Vira, Development of IC3M for Machine Tools and Robots, IASTED, ACTA Press, Aug. 1996, pp. 48-52.

N. Vira and M. Alagudu, Precision Measurements and Control of an Automated Two-dimensional Grid Plate Machine, ISA Transaction, Elsevier Publications, No. 34, 1995, pp. 101-116.