Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
1995 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences
Publication Date
9-1995
City
Boston, MA
Abstract
This paper describes the development of a virtual reality environment which facilitates the design of spherical four-bar mechanisms. A short discussion of spherical mechanism design theory and computer-aided mechanism design is followed by a description of the virtual environment and the development and operation of the SphereVR program. The virtual environment allows the user to naturally interact with the input data and specify the design parameters while operating in a three-dimensional environment. We see this development as a logical extension of existing graphics-based spatial design software. The need for a three-dimensional design space is driven by the difficulty in specifying design inputs and constraints for a spatial problem using a two-dimensional interface. In addition, once the mechanism has been created, the virtual environment provides the opportunity for the user to visually verify that the mechanism will perform the desired three-dimensional motion.
Copyright Owner
ASME
Copyright Date
1995
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Osborn, Scott W. and Vance, Judy M., "A Virtual Reality Environment for Synthesizing Spherical Four-bar Mechanisms" (1995). Mechanical Engineering Conference Presentations, Papers, and Proceedings. 33.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/me_conf/33
