Week Update May 6, 2005

Project Prototype:

Voxels
The voxel object was incorporated into the project. Currently it is an example provided by Prof. Horsch. The code will be modified to create the cuboid voxel shell. The voxel object will have to surround the STL object.

Forces and Collision
When a collision occurs a force will be sent to the haptic device. The focus of the next few weeks will be resetting and adjusting forces.

Project stlViewer:

Voxel object was modified. Each voxel is now drawn as a 3D coordinate using 3 lines rather than 6 planes.

Progress

A drilling tool was provided by Prof. Dr. Horsch. Next week I will enlist the help of the Darmstadt machining lab to attach the tool to the haptic device

Outlook

By June 3 demo

• Align voxel object and STL Import voxel object using haptic device.
• Feedback to simulate a collision and resist penetration.

Next phase

• Drilling tool should be attached.
• Experiment drilling with simple shapes
• Collision Detection with STL object