EAGER: Exploring Volumetric Modeling and Design Theory for Virtual Environments

EAGER：探索虚拟环境的体积建模和设计理论

• 批准号: 1049448
• 负责人: Hong Qin
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-11-01 至 2013-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Exploring; Volumetric; Modeling; Design

The essence of engineering design is rapid, effective, and creative change towards optimal solutions, which can be accomplished through the iterative modification of numerous design parameters spanning across multi-dimensions. To ameliorate the entire computer-aided engineering processes and enhance engineers' creativity through IT-supported tools, the long-term ambitious goal of this small-scale, CreativeIT project is to develop a creativity-enhancing virtual prototype environment that can greatly facilitate human-computer interaction through physics-based modeling of real-world objects and force-enabled haptic sculpting. The PI's strategy aims to develop a haptics-enabled platform for solid modeling, design, analysis, and relevant applications, which includes a suite of new, volumetric models for representing multi-dimensional datasets as well as haptics-based physical interactions for manipulating and managing such representations.Intellectual Merits: The PI plans to take a unique and integrated approach that aims to incorporate within a single IT system disparate research thrusts that span volumetric, physical, and material modeling for novel data representation; geometric and physics-based algorithms for interaction and analysis; and software tools for various applications. Through a suite of theory-driven research activities, the Broader Impact of this initiative in the long run will be both fundamental and profound to the enhancement of IT tools in a wider spectrum of real applications as well as the broadening of computer accessibility by human beings via haptic interaction. This initiative promises to deliver a new approach for representing, manipulating, and interacting with volumetric datasets in common use in such downstream applications as digital engineering, virtual sculpting for synthesis/analysis, surgical training, and many more.

工程设计的本质是快速、有效和创造性地改变最佳解决方案，这可以通过跨越多个维度的众多设计参数的迭代修改来实现。为了改善整个计算机辅助工程流程，并通过IT支持的工具增强工程师的创造力，这个小型CreativeIT项目的长期雄心勃勃的目标是开发一个增强创造力的虚拟原型环境，通过对现实世界物体的基于物理的建模和支持力的触觉造型，大大促进人机交互。PI的战略目标是开发一个支持触觉的平台，用于实体建模、设计、分析和相关应用，其中包括一套用于表示多维数据集的新体积模型，以及用于操纵和管理此类表示的基于触觉的物理交互。PI计划采取一种独特的综合方法，旨在将跨越体积，物理，用于新数据表示的材料建模;用于交互和分析的几何和物理算法;以及用于各种应用的软件工具。通过一系列理论驱动的研究活动，从长远来看，这一倡议的更广泛影响将是根本性的和深远的，以加强信息技术工具在更广泛的真实的应用，以及扩大计算机的可访问性，人类通过触觉互动。这一举措有望提供一种新的方法，用于表示，操纵和与体积数据集进行交互，这些数据集通常用于数字工程，合成/分析虚拟雕刻，手术培训等下游应用。