Developing a haptic interface to manipulate and section high polygon models from x-ray data

A paper was published on the use of Haptic devices

Padillia I, Zhang Y (2012)
Developing a haptic interface to manipulate and section high polygon models from x-ray data,  
International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Shanghai, China, August 16 - 17 



For more work in this area see 

A Virtual Environment Training System for Haptic Laparoscopic Surgery

Computing Courses

BSc and HND Computing Provision (click on the links below for more details of the courses)

• BEng/MEng Computing (Computer Networks Engineering)
• BEng/MEng Computing (Computer Systems Engineering) 

• BSc (Hons) Computing (also available part-time)
• BSc (Hons) Computing (Graphics and Visualisation)
• BSc (Hons) Computing (Internet Technology and Security)
• BSc (Hons) Computing (Mobile Computing)
• BSc (Hons) Computing (Software Engineering)
• BSc (Hons) Computing - One Year Top-Up 
• BSc  Computer Games Development
• HND Computing (Compute​r Net​works Engineering)
• HND Computing (Computer Systems Engineering)
• HND Computing (Graphics and Visualisation)
• HND Computing (Internet Tech​nolog​y and Security)
• HND Computing (Mobile Computing)
• HND Computing (Software Engine​ering) 
• HND Com​puting

The University of Northampton's, Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies offers five courses within the MSc Computing postgraduate provision (shown below) all available either part-time or full-time. 

• MSc Computing
• MSc Computing (Internet Technology and Security)
• MSc Computing (Computer Networks Engineering)
• MSc Computing (Software Engineering)
• MSc Computing (Immersive Technologies)

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Simulation of Friction in Virtual Environments

Dr Yinghui Zhang has recently presented a paper "A Multi-asperity Surface Contact Model for the Simulation of Friction in Virtual Environments". This paper presents a new dynamic friction model for haptic rendering of friction in virtual environments. A surface contact model is proposed to efficiently represent the interactions of asperities between contacting surfaces. The simulation results show that the friction model captures most of the friction phenomena observed experimentally. Mathematical methods are also developed to determine the value of parameters by which the friction model is characterized. This parameterization provides a high level user interface and thus makes the model easier to use.

Dr Zhang can be contacted at yinghui.zhang@northampton.ac.uk.

Reference:
Zhang Y (2010) "A Multi-asperity Surface Contact Model for the Simulation of Friction in Virtual Environments"Proceedings of Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC 2010), 7-9 April 2010, Laval, France.