Accelerated haptic rendering of polygonal models through local descent

  • Authors:
  • David E. Johnson;Peter Willemsen

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, University of Utah;School of Computing, University of Utah

  • Venue:
  • HAPTICS'04 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Haptic interfaces for virtual environment and teleoperator systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In a prior paper, we described a haptic rendering algorithm for arbitrary polygonal models using a six degree-of-freedom haptic interface. In that paper, global search for local minimum distances provided repulsive forces between models. This paper augments that system with a local tracking algorithm that quickly updates and maintains globally computed minima. The global search continuously adds and deletes local minimum distance pairs being updated by the local search. This new system supports higher haptic interaction rates on more complex scenes than the previous approach.