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Haptic modeling in the conceptual phases of product design

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The paper presents the results of a research project aimed at developing an innovative system for modeling industrial products based on haptic technology. The system consists of a Computer Aided Design (CAD) system enhanced with intuitive designer-oriented interaction tools and modalities. The system integrates innovative six degrees of freedom (DOF) haptic tools for modeling digital shapes, with sweep operators applied to class-A surfaces and force computation models based on chip formation models. The system aims at exploiting designers’ existing skills in modeling products, improving the products design process by reducing the necessity of building several physical models for evaluating and testing the product designs. The system requirements have been defined observing designers during their daily work and translating the way they model shapes using hands and craft tools into specifications for the modeling system and the haptic tool. The system prototype has been tested by designers who have found it intuitive and effective to use.

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The research work presented in this paper is supported by the European Commission, under the FP6 IST-2002-001996 T’nD – Touch and Design project (www.kaemart.it/touch-and-design). The authors would like to thank all project partners for their contributions to the research, and in particular, Franco De Angelis and Luca Formentini of Politecnico di Milano for their contribution in developing the system prototype.

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Bordegoni, M., Cugini, U. Haptic modeling in the conceptual phases of product design. Virtual Reality 9, 192–202 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-005-0013-3

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