触觉可视化技术中柔性物体变形模型研究

触觉可视化技术的出现开辟了虚拟现实技术新的应用前景,柔性物体变形技术成为其中的研究热点。论文对触觉可视化技术中柔性物体变形技术进行深入研究,系统地讨论了基于几何的力变形模型与基于物理意义力变形模型,分析了相关模型的基本思想和优缺点,对这些建模方法的性能进行了细致的比较。结果表明随着硬件技术的不断发展,基于物理意义的有限元模型将会得到越来越多的应用。最后对柔性物体物理形变建模的未来发展趋势做了探讨。     

触觉可视化技术中柔性物体变形模型研究

触觉可视化技术的出现开辟了虚拟现实技术新的应用前景,柔性物体变形技术成为其中的研究热点。论文对触觉可视化技术中柔性物体变形技术进行深入研究,系统地讨论了基于几何的力变形模型与基于物理意义力变形模型,分析了相关模型的基本思想和优缺点,对这些建模方法的性能进行了细致的比较。结果表明随着硬件技术的不断发展,基于物理意义的有限元模型将会得到越来越多的应用。最后对柔性物体物理形变建模的未来发展趋势做了探讨。     

一种基于物理意义的快速力反馈形变模型及实时力觉响应算法

虚拟物体在受力作用时的形变建模是虚拟环境中力/触觉人机交互的关键.文中提出了一种新的基于物理意义的形变建模方法,不仅计算速度快,满足力反馈的实时性要求,而且能够同时保证接触力和形变的计算具有较高的精度,适用于具有较大变形量的柔性物体的力反馈计算,满足精细作业对虚拟现实系统的要求.     

采用多曲线拟合的柔性体建模仿真方法

提出了一种多曲线拟合的数学建模方法,用于在仿真中快速建立柔性物体受力的形变模型。该方法根据柔性体的形变特性将其外形轮廓分为多个部分;然后使用不同的简单曲线拟合各部分轮廓的形状,并通过改变拟合曲线的参数使得曲线形状改变,以此定量仿真出轮廓的受力形变;最后将曲线拼接起来构成物体的整体形变模型。文中讨论了常见的方体和板块体在挤压、拉伸和扭转这三种非常普遍受力下的形变特性,并使用多曲线拟合方法建立了形变模型。多曲线拟合方法虽然在表现精度上存在一定误差,但建模形式简单、计算速度快,为仿真中表现速度与表达精度的矛盾提供了一种有效的解决手段。     

基于球面调和函数的柔性体力触觉建模研究

为了提高虚拟柔性体力触觉交互中物体形变与力的准确描述及计算效率,提出一种基于球面调和函数表达的柔性体力触觉建模方法。利用球面调和函数的多尺度性进行物体碰撞检测实现,在变形体的密度、杨氏模量、泊松比等参数已知的情况下,根据在力作用下的物体形变使用简化后的波动方程计算变形量和反馈力生成。实验结果表明,采用该方法可以准确描述柔性体的形变过程,其所需的计算成本在可接受的范围之内,可被应用到各种力交互辅助的医学应用中。     

虚拟柔性体实时形变仿真模型研究

为了在虚拟现实柔性体力触觉交互研究中得到稳定、连续、真实的力触感,提出一种基于球面调和函数表达的虚拟柔性体实时形变仿真模型,利用球面调和函数的正交归一、旋转不变、多尺度等特性实现物体的快速准确表达.在变形体的密度、杨氏模量、泊松比等参数已知的情况下,基于径向基函数神经网络模型预测柔性体受力形变后的SH模型.仿真结果表明,该方法不仅可以准确表达柔性体的实时形变,而且使得基于SH表达的柔性体形变的视觉刷新描述与柔性体反馈力的触觉刷新描述同步,从而满足虚拟手术仿真训练等虚拟柔性体力触觉交互研究要求.     

一种基于球面调和函数的柔性体建模方法实现

给出了球面调和函数表达柔性体模型的原理,重点探讨了一种新的基于球面调和函数多尺度性的虚拟柔性体建模方法的实现机理。实验结果表明,该方法可以实现柔性物体的精确建模和实时表达,适合应用于虚拟现实的柔性物体碰撞检测、虚拟手术等对场景实时性要求较高的领域。     

用于实时柔性触觉再现的平行菱形链连接模型

精度高且实时性好的柔性触觉变形模型是实现触觉再现系统的关键。提出了一种新的基于物理意义的平行菱形链连接触觉变形模型,系统中各个链结构单元相对位移的叠加对外等效为物体表面的变形,与之相连的弹簧弹性力的合力等效为物体表面的接触力。使用Delta 6-DOF手控器,建立了触觉再现实验系统,对柔性体的接触变形和实时虚拟触觉反馈进行仿真, 实验结果表明所提出的模型不仅计算简单,而且能够保证触觉接触力和形变计算具有较高精度,满足虚拟现实系统对精细作业和实时性的要求。     

基于Vega和OpenGL的柔性物体建模

针对虚拟现实中柔性物体仿真的现状,充分利用Vega的高级仿真功能和Opengl灵活性可移植性的特点,给出了基于Vega、Opengi的柔性物体建模方法,根据质点-弹簧模型,将柔性物体简化为一系列独立的单元网格,并利用运动学原理给出了简化的数学模型,最后以飘扬的红旗为例,在VC++6.0环境下,对此方法进行验证实现.     

动力学修正的柔性体复合变形算法

传统柔性体变形算法存在动力学仿真不足的问题,为此,提出一种基于物理意义的复合变形算法.使用填充球模型丰富柔性体的动力学性质,解耦模型的局部变形和整体变形.柔性体外表面采用弹簧-质点模型,通过虚拟力的分层渲染,增强操作者的触觉感受.同时采用Shape Matching算法对模型的重心位置进行修正,解决由局部向全局传递形变...     

GPU-based rendering for deformable translucent objects

In this paper we introduce an approximate image-space approach for real-time rendering of deformable translucent models by flattening the geometry and lighting information of objects into textures to calculate multi-scattering in texture spaces. We decompose the process into two stages, called the gathering and scattering corresponding to the computations for incident and exident irradiance respectively. We derive a simplified illumination model for the gathering of the incident irradiance, which is amenable for deformable models using two auxiliary textures. In the scattering stage, we adopt two modes for efficient accomplishment of the view-dependent scattering. Our approach is implemented by fully exploiting the capabilities of graphics processing units (GPUs). It achieves visually plausible results and real-time frame rates for deformable models on commodity desktop PCs.     

Hybrid client-server architecture and control techniques for collaborative product development using haptic interfaces

In this paper, a collaborative product development and prototyping framework is proposed by using distributed haptic interfaces along with deformable objects modeling. Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) is a promising technique for industrial product development and virtual prototyping. Network control problems such as network traffic and network delay in communication have greatly limited collaborative virtual environment applications. The problems become more difficult when high-update-rate haptic interfaces and computation intensive deformable objects modeling are integrated into CVEs for intuitive manipulation and enhanced realism. A hybrid network architecture is proposed to balance the computational burden of haptic rendering and deformable object simulation. Adaptive artificial time compensation is used to reduce the time discrepancy between the server and the client. Interpolation and extrapolation approaches are used to synchronize graphic and haptic data transmitted over the network. The proposed techniques can be used for collaborative product development, virtual assembly, remote product simulation and other collaborative virtual environments where both haptic interfaces and deformable object models are involved.     

High-fidelity passive force-reflecting virtual environments

Passivity theory is applied to the creation of synthetic, complex multidimensional haptic environments. It can be shown that under appropriate conditions, sufficiently high rendering rates can guarantee the passivity of a simulation produced by a haptic device coupled to a discrete-time realization of a nominally passive environment. The creation of a passive, globally defined, virtual environment is either analytically complex or computationally costly. A method is described whereby a passive environment is created from transitions between locally defined force models that encode static conservative force fields. This is applied to the haptic rendering of tool contact with deformable bodies, in which sparse force-deflection responses are used to define local models. Passivity, continuity, and fidelity are provided by response-function interpolation rather than by interpolation of forces, as in previous methods. The work also includes an illustrative example.     

Realistic haptic rendering of interacting deformable objects in virtual environments

A new computer haptics algorithm to be used in general interactive manipulations of deformable virtual objects is presented. In multimodal interactive simulations, haptic feedback computation often comes from contact forces. Subsequently, the fidelity of haptic rendering depends significantly on contact space modeling. Contact and friction laws between deformable models are often simplified in up to date methods. They do not allow a "realistic" rendering of the subtleties of contact space physical phenomena (such as slip and stick effects due to friction or mechanical coupling between contacts). In this paper, we use Signorini's contact law and Coulomb's friction law as a computer haptics basis. Real-time performance is made possible thanks to a linearization of the behavior in the contact space, formulated as the so-called Delassus operator, and iteratively solved by a Gauss-Seidel type algorithm. Dynamic deformation uses corotational global formulation to obtain the Delassus operator in which the mass and stiffness ratio are dissociated from the simulation time step. This last point is crucial to keep stable haptic feedback. This global approach has been packaged, implemented, and tested. Stable and realistic 6D haptic feedback is demonstrated through a clipping task experiment.     

Projected tetrahedra revisited: a barycentric formulation applied to digital radiograph reconstruction using higher-order attenuation functions

This paper presents a novel method for volume rendering of unstructured grids. Previously, we introduced an algorithm for perspective-correct interpolation of barycentric coordinates and computing polynomial attenuation integrals for a projected tetrahedron using graphics hardware. In this paper, we enhance the algorithm by providing a simple and efficient method to compute the projected shape (silhouette) and tessellation of a tetrahedron, in perspective and orthographic projection models. Our tessellation algorithm is published for the first time. Compared with works of other groups on rendering unstructured grids, the main contributions of this work are: 1) A new algorithm for finding the silhouette of a projected tetrahedron. 2) A method for interpolating barycentric coordinates and thickness on the faces of the tetrahedron. 3) Visualizing higher-order attenuation functions using GPU without preintegration. 4) Capability of applying shape deformations to a rendered tetrahedral mesh without significant performance loss. Our visualization model is independent of depth-sorting of the cells. We present imaging and timing results of our implementation, and an application in time-critical "2D-3D" deformable registration of anatomical models. We discuss the impact of using higher-order functions on quality and performance.     

Real-time rendering of deformable heterogeneous translucent objects using multiresolution splatting

In this paper, we present a novel real-time rendering algorithm for heterogenous translucent objects with deformable geometry. The proposed method starts by rendering the surface geometry in two separate geometry buffers—the irradiance buffer and the splatting buffer—with corresponding mipmaps from the lighting and viewing directions, respectively. Irradiance samples are selected from the irradiance buffer according to geometric and material properties using a novel and fast selection algorithm. Next, we gather the irradiance per visible surface point by splatting the irradiance samples to the splatting buffer. To compute the appearance of long-distance low-frequency subsurface scattering, as well as short-range detailed scattering, a fast novel multiresolution GPU algorithm is developed that computes everything on the fly and which does not require any precomputations. We illustrate the effectiveness of our method on several deformable geometries with measured heterogeneous translucent materials.     

Real-time deformable models for surgery simulation: a survey

Simulating the behaviour of elastic objects in real time is one of the current objectives of computer graphics. One of its fields of application lies in virtual reality, mainly in surgery simulation systems. In computer graphics, the models used for the construction of objects with deformable behaviour are known as deformable models. These have two conflicting characteristics: interactivity and motion realism. The different deformable models developed to date have promoted only one of these (usually interactivity) to the detriment of the other (biomechanical realism). In this paper, we present a classification of the different deformable models that have been developed. We present the advantages and disadvantages of each one. Finally, we make a comparison of deformable models and perform an evaluation of the state of the art and the future of deformable models.     

A topology preserving level set method for geometric deformable models

Active contour and surface models, also known as deformable models, are powerful image segmentation techniques. Geometric deformable models implemented using level set methods have advantages over parametric models due to their intrinsic behavior, parameterization independence, and ease of implementation. However, a long claimed advantage of geometric deformable models-the ability to automatically handle topology changes-turns out to be a liability in applications where the object to be segmented has a known topology that must be preserved. We present a new class of geometric deformable models designed using a novel topology-preserving level set method, which achieves topology preservation by applying the simple point concept from digital topology. These new models maintain the other advantages of standard geometric deformable models including subpixel accuracy and production of nonintersecting curves or surfaces. Moreover, since the topology-preserving constraint is enforced efficiently through local computations, the resulting algorithm incurs only nominal computational overhead over standard geometric deformable models. Several experiments on simulated and real data are provided to demonstrate the performance of this new deformable model algorithm.     

A Survey of Physically Based Simulation of Cuts in Deformable Bodies

Virtual cutting of deformable bodies has been an important and active research topic in physically based modelling and simulation for more than a decade. A particular challenge in virtual cutting is the robust and efficient incorporation of cuts into an accurate computational model that is used for the simulation of the deformable body. This report presents a coherent summary of the state of the art in virtual cutting of deformable bodies, focusing on the distinct geometrical and topological representations of the deformable body, as well as the specific numerical discretizations of the governing equations of motion. In particular, we discuss virtual cutting based on tetrahedral, hexahedral and polyhedral meshes, in combination with standard, polyhedral, composite and extended finite element discretizations. A separate section is devoted to meshfree methods. Furthermore, we discuss cutting‐related research problems such as collision detection and haptic rendering in the context of interactive cutting scenarios. The report is complemented with an application study to assess the performance of virtual cutting simulators.     

Creating speech-synchronized animation

We present a facial model designed primarily to support animated speech. Our facial model takes facial geometry as input and transforms it into a parametric deformable model. The facial model uses a muscle-based parameterization, allowing for easier integration between speech synchrony and facial expressions. Our facial model has a highly deformable lip model that is grafted onto the input facial geometry to provide the necessary geometric complexity needed for creating lip shapes and high-quality renderings. Our facial model also includes a highly deformable tongue model that can represent the shapes the tongue undergoes during speech. We add teeth, gums, and upper palate geometry to complete the inner mouth. To decrease the processing time, we hierarchically deform the facial surface. We also present a method to animate the facial model over time to create animated speech using a model of coarticulation that blends visemes together using dominance functions. We treat visemes as a dynamic shaping of the vocal tract by describing visemes as curves instead of keyframes. We show the utility of the techniques described in this paper by implementing them in a text-to-audiovisual-speech system that creates animation of speech from unrestricted text. The facial and coarticulation models must first be interactively initialized. The system then automatically creates accurate real-time animated speech from the input text. It is capable of cheaply producing tremendous amounts of animated speech with very low resource requirements.