{"title":"Haptic Aided Soft-touch Multi-material Product Design","authors":"Zhan Gao, Yonghua Chen, L. Lian","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2006.250786","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) based multi-material molded products have found wide spread uses in various industries and every-day life. Today's computer-aided design (CAD) tools are very cumbersome in designing multi-material parts. This paper proposes a top-down design methodology to facilitate the design of multi-material products. Haptic technology is employed to enhance efficiency and intuitiveness of the designing process. Further more, some product properties such as stiffness can be readily evaluated in a haptic system. The proposed methodology is illustrated through a case study: the design of a toothbrush","PeriodicalId":405572,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Symposium on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2006 IEEE Symposium on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2006.250786","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In recent years, thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) based multi-material molded products have found wide spread uses in various industries and every-day life. Today's computer-aided design (CAD) tools are very cumbersome in designing multi-material parts. This paper proposes a top-down design methodology to facilitate the design of multi-material products. Haptic technology is employed to enhance efficiency and intuitiveness of the designing process. Further more, some product properties such as stiffness can be readily evaluated in a haptic system. The proposed methodology is illustrated through a case study: the design of a toothbrush