Neil McKay's Curriculum Vitae
Education
Work Experience
- May 1985 to present: Staff Research Engineer, Computer
Science Department, General Motors Research labs.
Worked in control of mobile robots, control and
calibration of robot manipulators, computer vision
system calibration, and computer graphics
- Fall 1996: taught computer graphics at the University of Michigan
(Ann Arbor)
Publications
- E. L. Carstensen, T. G. Muir, W. K. Law, and N. D. McKay,
Demonstration of Nonlinear Acoustical Effects at
Biomedical Frequencies and Intensities
, Ultrasound
in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 6, pp. 359-368, 1980
- E. L. Carstensen, T. G. Muir, N. D. McKay, and D. Delecki,
Absorption of Finite Amplitude Ultrasound in Tissues
,
Acustica, Vol. 51, pp. 116-123, 1982
- K. G. Shin, G. P. Vukkadala, and N. D. McKay,
Development of an Explicit Robot Control Language
,
Proceedings of the Sixth Computer Software and Applications
conference, November 1982, pp. 282-288
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
Open-Loop Minimum-Time Control
of Robotic Manipulators and its Application
,
Proceedings of the 1984 American Control Conference, June 1984,
pp. 1231-1236
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
Robot Path Planning Using
Dynamic Programming
, Proceedings of the 23rd
Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1629-1635,
December 1984
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
Minimum-Time Control of Robotic
Manipulators with Geometric Path Constraints
, IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-30, No. 6,
June 1985
- N. D. McKay,
Minimum-Cost Control of Robotic Manipulators
with Geometric Path Constraints
, University
Microfilms International, 1985 (Ph.D. thesis)
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
Selection of Near-Minimum-Time
Geometric Paths for Robotic Manipulators
,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-31, No. 6,
June 1986
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
A Dynamic Programming Approach
to Trajectory Planning of Robotic Manipulators
,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-31, No. 6,
June 1986
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
Automatic Generation of Trajectory
Planners or Industrial Robots
, Proceedings of the 1986
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 260-266
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
Minimum-Time Trajectory Planning
for Industrial Robots with General Torque Constraints
,
Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation,
Vol. 1, pp. 412-417
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
Incorporation of Payload
Uncertainties into Robot Trajectory Planning
,
Proceedings of the 1986 American Control Conference, Vol. 3,
pp. 1919-1926
- K. G. Shin and N. D. McKay,
Robust Trajectory Planning for
Robotic Manipulators Under Payload Uncertainties
,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-32,
No. 12, December 1987
- N. D. McKay,
Trajectory Planning for the AutoNav-II
Autonomous Vehicle
, GM Research Publication
GMR-6853
- P. J. Besl and N. D. McKay,
A Method for Registration
of 3-D Shapes
, IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 12, February 1992
Patents
- Paul Besl and Neil McKay,
Apparatus for the Registration
of Three-Dimensional Shapes
, patent no. 5,715,166
(assigned to General Motors)
Honors
- National Merit scholar, University of Rochester, 1976-1980
- Bausch and Lomb scholar, University of Rochester, 1976-1980
- Elected to Tau Beta Pi, 1979
- Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1980
- Charles L. Newton Prize, 1980, awarded by the University of
Rochester to a student in the applied sciences who
shows a special proficiency in that area, either
in examinations or by thesis
- ECE fellow at RPI, 1980-1981
- Rockwell fellow at RPI, 1981-1982
- Winner of the IEEE Control Systems Society's outstanding paper
award for 1985, for the paper
Minimum-Time Control of Robotic Manipulators with
Geometric Path Constraints
,
co-authored with K. G. Shin
Professional Society Memberships
- IEEE , Computer Society and
Robotics and Automation Society