On Point-Based Haptic Rendering - Engineering

ENG > Vol.5 No.5, May 2013

On Point-Based Haptic Rendering ()

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DOI: 10.4236/eng.2013.55A003 3,712 Downloads 5,750 Views Citations

Author(s)

Shi Wen, Shahram Payandeh

Affiliation(s)

Experimental Robotics and Haptics Laboratory, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.

ABSTRACT

Haptic rendering is referred to as an approach for complementing graphical model of the virtual object with mechanics- based properties. As a result, when the user interacts with the virtual object through a haptic device, the object can graphically deflect or deform following laws of mechanics. In addition, the user is able to feel the resulting interaction force when interacting with the virtual object. This paper presents a study of defining the levels-of-detail (LOD) in point-based computational mechanics for haptic rendering of objects. The approach uses the description of object as a set of sampled points. In comparison with the finite element method (FEM), point-based approach does not rely on any predefined mesh representation and depends on the point representation of the volume of the object. Different from solving the governing equations of motion representing the entire object based on pre-defined mesh representation which is used in FEM, in point-based modeling approach, the number of points involved in the computation of displacement/deformation can be adaptively defined during the solution cycle. This frame work can offer the implementation of the notion for levels-of-detail techniques for which can be used to tune the haptic rendering environment for in- creased realism and computational efficiency. This paper presents some initial experimental studies in implementing LOD in such environment.

KEYWORDS

Haptic Rendering; Computational Mechanics; Point-Based Modeling; Level-of-Details

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S. Wen and S. Payandeh, "On Point-Based Haptic Rendering," Engineering, Vol. 5 No. 5A, 2013, pp. 14-24. doi: 10.4236/eng.2013.55A003.

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