Alan Sullivan
- Phone: 617-621-7596
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Distinguished Member Research Staff,
Dynamical Systems & Computational Geometry Team Leader -
Education:
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1993 -
Research Areas:
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Biography
First at U.C. Berkeley, then at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Alan studied interactions between ultra-high intensity femtosecond lasers and plasmas. Prior to joining MERL in 2007, he worked at a series of start-ups where he developed a novel volumetric 3D display technology. At MERL His research interests include computational geometry and computer graphics.
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News & Events
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NEWS CIRP CMMO 2013: publication by Alan Sullivan and others Date: June 13, 2013
Where: CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations (CIRP CMMO)
MERL Contact: Alan Sullivan
Research Areas: Mechatronics, Computational GeometryBrief- The paper "Cutter Workpiece Engagement Calculations for Five-axis Milling using Composite Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields" by Erdim, H. and Sullivan, A. was presented at the CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations (CIRP CMMO)
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NEWS Mitsubishi Electric Develops Ultra-High Resolution 3D Shape Representation Technology Date: February 12, 2013
MERL Contact: Alan Sullivan
Research Area: MechatronicsBrief- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today it has developed ultra-high resolution 3D shape representation technology for numerically controlled (NC) machine tools. The technology displays detailed shapes of machined surfaces down to a resolution of 1 micrometer (um) in a 3D machining simulation, which machine operators can use to evaluate surface textures without trial cutting through a high quality machining process.
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MERL Publications
- , "Cutter Workpiece Engagement Calculations for Five-axis Milling using Composite Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields", CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations (CMMO), June 2013.BibTeX Download PDFRead TR2013-049
- @inproceedings{Erdim2013jun,
- author = {Erdim, H. and Sullivan, A.},
- title = {Cutter Workpiece Engagement Calculations for Five-axis Milling using Composite Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields},
- booktitle = {CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations (CMMO)},
- year = 2013,
- month = jun,
- url = {http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2013-049}
- }
- , "High Accuracy Computation of Geometric Properties of Cutter Workpiece Intersection using Distance Fields for NC Milling", CIRP Conference on Process Machine Interactions (PMI), October 2012, vol. 4, pp. 84-89.BibTeX Download PDFRead TR2012-093
- @inproceedings{Erdim2012oct,
- author = {Erdim, H. and Sullivan, A.},
- title = {High Accuracy Computation of Geometric Properties of Cutter Workpiece Intersection using Distance Fields for NC Milling},
- booktitle = {CIRP Conference on Process Machine Interactions (PMI)},
- year = 2012,
- volume = 4,
- pages = {84--89},
- month = oct,
- url = {http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2012-093}
- }
- , "High Accuracy NC Milling Simulation Using Composite Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields", Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 522-536, June 2012.BibTeX Download PDFRead TR2012-025
- @article{Sullivan2012jun,
- author = {Sullivan, A. and Erdim, H. and Perry, R.N. and Frisken, S.F.},
- title = {High Accuracy NC Milling Simulation Using Composite Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields},
- journal = {Computer-Aided Design},
- year = 2012,
- volume = 44,
- number = 6,
- pages = {522--536},
- month = jun,
- url = {http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2012-025}
- }
- , "Intermediate View Generation for Perceived Depth Adjustment of Stereo Video", SPIE Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing, August 2009, vol. 7443.BibTeX Download PDFRead TR2009-052
- @inproceedings{Arican2009aug,
- author = {Arican, Z. and Yea, S. and Sullivan, A. and Vetro, A. and Tescher, A.G.},
- title = {Intermediate View Generation for Perceived Depth Adjustment of Stereo Video},
- booktitle = {SPIE Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing},
- year = 2009,
- volume = 7443,
- month = aug,
- url = {http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2009-052}
- }
- , "Cutter Workpiece Engagement Calculations for Five-axis Milling using Composite Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields", CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations (CMMO), June 2013.
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Analyzing Volume Removed During Machining Simulation"
Inventors: Erdim, Huseyin; Sullivan, Alan
Patent No.: 8,935,138
Issue Date: Jan 13, 2015 -
Title: "System and Method for Simulating Machining Objects"
Inventors: Sullivan, Alan; Manukyan, Liana
Patent No.: 8,838,419
Issue Date: Sep 16, 2014 -
Title: "System and Method for Identifying Defects of Surfaces Due to Machining Processes"
Inventors: Sullivan, Alan; Yoganandan, Arun R
Patent No.: 8,532,812
Issue Date: Sep 10, 2013 -
Title: "System and Method for Optimizing Machining Simulation"
Inventors: Sullivan, Alan; Yerazunis, William S.
Patent No.: 8,483,858
Issue Date: Jul 9, 2013 -
Title: "Volume-Based Coverage Analysis for Sensor Placement in 3D Environments"
Inventors: Sullivan, Alan; Garaas, Tyler W
Patent No.: 8,442,306
Issue Date: May 14, 2013 -
Title: "A Method for Reconstructing a Distance Field of a Swept Volume at a Sample Point"
Inventors: Frisken, Sarah F.; Perry, Ronald N.; Sullivan, Alan
Patent No.: 8,265,909
Issue Date: Sep 11, 2012 -
Title: "A Method for Simulating Numerically Controlled Milling Using Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields"
Inventors: Frisken, Sarah F.; Perry, Ronald N.; Sullivan, Alan
Patent No.: 8,010,328
Issue Date: Aug 30, 2011
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Title: "Analyzing Volume Removed During Machining Simulation"