The Home Page of Greg Causey

I'm a Post Doctoral Associate in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University.
CWRU is located in Cleveland Ohio.

I'm currently working on two projects: a second generation, high-speed, reconfigurable parts feeder and a robotic test bed for studying the flight control behavior of Tobacco Hornworm Moths.

My specific areas of interest and experience are:

Design, Construction, Testing and Modeling of Flexible Parts Feeding Systems
Design of object-oriented software for the interaction with and control of electro-mechanical systems
Design, construction, and programming of advanced electro-mechanical systems
Distributed control architectures for industrial manufacturing systems
Tool Offsets for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Workcells

Flexible Parts Feeding Research at CWRU

Graduate Work

"Elements of Agility in Manufacturing", Ph.D. Dissertation (Mechanical Engineering), CWRU, January 1999.
"An Object-Oriented Software Architecture for the Control of Flexible Parts Feeding Systems", M.S. Thesis (Computer Science), CWRU, January 2002.
"Testing of Vibration Damping Bindings used on Alpine Ski Equipment", M.S. Thesis (Mechanical Engineering), CWRU, August 1993.

Publications

"An Object-Oriented Controller Architecture for Flexible Parts Feeding Systems", 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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"Guidelines for the Design of Robotic Gripping Systems", Assembly automation, Volume 23, Number 1, 2003, pp. 18-28.
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"Modeling and Throughput Prediction for Flexible Parts Feeders", 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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"Toward a Science of Flexible Feeding", 1999 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics.
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"Testing and Analysis of a Flexible Feeding System", 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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"Design of a Flexible Parts Feeding System", 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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"Gripper Design Guidelines for Modular Manufacturing", 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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"Advances in Agile Manufacturing", 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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"Design of an Agile Manufacturing Workcell for Light Mechanical Assembly", 1996 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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"An Agile Manufacturing Workcell Design", IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, 1998
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Presentations

"Testing and Analysis of a Flexible Feeding System", 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
"Gripper Design Guidelines for Modular Manufacturing", 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
"Design of a Flexible Parts Feeding System", 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
"Design of a Generic Parts Feeder for an Agile Manufacturing Workcell", 1996 RIA 4^th Annual Workshop on Flexible Parts Feeding for Automated Handling & Assembly
"Tool Offsets and Vision Calibration: A Tutorial on the Use of Tool Offsets in a Flexible Manufacturing Workcell ", One day seminar presented to the Manufacturing Technology Center, Eaton Corporation, October 1997.

My Resume

I have two main areas of interest: design, construction, and programming of electro-mechanical systems and programming object-oriented, embedded software. I therefore have two different resumes below, one tailored to each area.

Design, Construction, and Programming of Electro-Mechanical Systems

Programming Object-Oriented, Embedded Control Software

Things I enjoy doing in my spare time.

Visit my Steven Curtis Chapman page or check out my Geoff Moore & the Distance page!
These are works in progress. As I get more time, I'll continue to update them.
Here is a page of Contemporary Christian Music links.

Here's my BOOKMARK Page . This is up to date and (slightly) organized

NOTE: This is really old!! Here's my somewhat compiled list of interesting links. LINKS

APPLIX ON-LINE DOCS (Applixware 4.3)!!!

Unfortunately, Applix has asked me to remove the postscript and PDF files of the Applix manuals from my ftp server, therefore they are no longer available for download. You may still download the Print Manual HOW-TO which explains the procedure for generating your own documentation set locally. Sorry for the inconvenience, its beyond my control (but lets face it, its really not that big of a deal to install the macro and generate the docs locally anyway!)
There is also a postscript version of the HOW-TO available.

Gregory C Causey

Post-Doctoral Associate
Case Western Reserve University
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Center for Automation & Intelligent Systems Research
gcc@po.cwru.edu