Publications

Hornick, M.L., "Use of Modal Techniques in the Numerical Simulation of the Dynamic Response of Spatial Mechanisms",  M.S. Thesis, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982.

Hornick,  M.L., "Offline Robot Programming and Simulation", Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985.

Hornick,  M.L. and B. Ravani, "Computer Aided Offline Planning and Programming of Robot Motion", The International Journal of Robotics Research,  No. 4, Winter, 1986, pp. 18-31.

Hornick, M.L. and B. Ravani, "A Data Structure and Data Base Design for Model-Driven Robot Programming", Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,  San Francisco, California, April 1986, pp. 1082-1086.

Hornick, M.L. and B. Ravani, "A Geometrical Data Base for Offline Robot Programming", Proceedings of the 7th IFToMM World Congress, Sevilla, Spain, September, 1987, pp. 1227-1231.

Ravani, B. and M.L. Hornick, "STAR: A Simulation Tool for Automation and Robotics", Control and Programming in Advanced Manufacturing, K. Rathmill, editor, Springer-Verlag, 1988, pp. 269-294.

Hornick,  M.L., "Assignment of Robot Link Coordinate Frames using Sheth-Uicker Notation", RIA R15.07, 1990.

Hornick, M.L., "Calibration Methods for Offline Improvement of Absolute Robot Accuracy", Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Industrial Robots, October, 1991, pp. 1039-1049.

Inventions & Patents

    A Method for Constant Surface Speed Process Coating, 1991.

    Calibration Methods for Improving the Absolute Accuracy of Industrial Robots, 1991.

    Internet Web-based Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics System for Industrial Robots, 1998.