My PhD research was about physics-based motion planning. The following videos show some interesting planning examples for several challenging domains. For more information about this work, please have a look at my PhD Thesis section.

Simulated Domains: Minigolf, Soccer, Pool, Many-Dice

Robot Minigolf Part 1: Configuration

Robot Minigolf Part 2: More Examples

Physics-Based Dribbling

RoboCup is an international robot soccer competition. Our team "CMDragons" participates in the Small Size League where robots play 5 vs. 5 soccer games with a golf-ball.

CMDragons Highlights from RoboCup 2008, Suzhou, China

CMDragons Highlights from RoboCup 2007, Atlanta

RoboCup 2009 - Kicker Strength Shootout

Note that this "competition" is not officially part of RoboCup... but it was fun nevertheless!

The following videos were generated by simulators I wrote for homework assignments of Carnegie Mellon's "Physical Simulation for Computer Animation" course, taught by Adam Bargteil in Fall 2007.

Invertible Finite Elements Simulation

Smoke Simulator

Behavioral Particle System

The following video shows a light striping system I developed using a simple off-the-shelf projector and single firewire camera. Using the offset between camera and light-source, it is possible to reconstruct the 3D shape of objects through triangulation.