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Designing, Manufacturing, and Predicting Deformation of a Formable Crust Matrix

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dc.contributor.advisor Rosen, David W.
dc.contributor.author Nguyen, Austina Nga en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ebert-Uphoff, Imme
dc.contributor.committeeMember Mark Allen
dc.contributor.department Mechanical Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2005-03-02T22:17:58Z
dc.date.available 2005-03-02T22:17:58Z
dc.date.issued 2004-07-07 en_US
dc.description.abstract Digital Clay represents a new type of 3-D human-computer interface device that enables tactile and haptic interactions. The Digital Clay kinematics structure is computer controlled and can be commanded to acquire a wide variety of desired shapes (shape display), or be deformed by the user in a manner similar to that of real clay (shape editing). The design of the structure went through various modifications where we finally settled on a crust matrix of spherical joint unit cells. After designing the kinematics structure, the next step is predicting the deformation of the crust matrix based upon a handful of inputs. One possible solution for predicting the shape outcome is considering minimizing the potential energy of the system. In this thesis two methods will be introduced. The first method will be an abstract model of the crust where the energy is calculated from a simplified model with one type of angular springs. The second method is the actual manufacturable crust model with two types of angular springs. From the implementation of these two methods, the output will be center-points of the unit cells. From the center-points, one can also calculate the joint angles within each unit cell. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5016
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Energy minimization en_US
dc.subject Kinematics structure
dc.subject Deformation
dc.subject Haptic
dc.subject Cartesian coordinates
dc.subject Digital Clay
dc.subject Stereolithography
dc.subject Rapid prototyping
dc.subject.lcsh Human-computer interaction Technological innovations en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Touch en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Kinematics en_US
dc.title Designing, Manufacturing, and Predicting Deformation of a Formable Crust Matrix en_US
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dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Rosen, David W.
local.contributor.corporatename George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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