Dr. David J. Cannon
Associate Professor
206 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-2360 / Fax: 814-863-4745
E-mail: djc4@psu.edu
Profile
David Cannon is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University.
Education
Ph.D. , Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S. , Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
B.S. , Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Honors and Awards
Research Interests
Virtual Tools and Robotics Laboratory
Robotics and Control
Virtual Reality
Manufacturing and Human-Machine Systems
Memberships
Selected Publications
Cannon, D. J., "Experiments with a Target-Threshold Control Theory Model for Deriving Fitts' Law Parameters for Human-Machine Systems", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 24, no. 8, 1994, pp.1089-1098.
Cannon, D. J., Thomas G., Wang, C., Kesavadas, T., "A Virtual Reality-Based Point-and-Direct Robotic System with Instrumented Glove," International Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol. 1, no. 2, 1994, pp. 139-148.
Wang, C., Cannon, D. J., Kumara, S. R. T., Lu, G., "A Skeleton and Neural Network-Based Approach for Identifying Cosmetic Surface Flaws," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 6, no. 5, 1995, pp. 1201-1211.
Yi-Chen, S., Wang, C., Egbelu, P, J., Cannon, D. J., "A Dynamic Point Specification Approach to Sequencing Robot Moves for PCB Assembly," International Journal Computer Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 8, no. 6, 1995, pp. 448-456.
Kesavadas, T., Cannon, D. J., "Virtual Tools that Carry Attributes for Interactively Specifying Intermediate Manufacturing Processes," Virtual Reality, vol. 1, no. 2, 1995, pp. 71-90.
Wang, C., Cannon, D. J., "Virtual-Reality-Based Point-and-Direct Robotic Inspection in Manufacturing," IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, vol. 12, no. 4, 1996, pp. 516-531.
Hwan Yun, M., Cannon, D. J., Freivalds, A., Thomas, G., "An Instrumented Glove for Grasp Specification in Virtual-Reality-Based Point-and-Direct Telerobotics," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 27, no. 5, 1997, pp. 835-846.
Wang, C., Ma, H., Cannon, D. J., "Human-Machine Collaboration in Robotics: Integrating Virtual Tools with a Collision Avoidance Concept using Conglomerates of Spheres," Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 1997, pp. 1- 31.
Cannon, D. J., Thomas, G., "Virtual Tools for Supervisory and Collaborative Control of Robots," Presence, vol. 6, no. 1, 1997, pp. 1-28.
Medeiros, D. J., Thomas, G., Ratkus, A. B., Cannon, D. J., "Off-Line Programming of Coordinate Measuring Machines Using a Hand-Held Stylus," Journal of Manufacturing Systems, vol. 13, no. 6, 1994, pp. 401-411.