HAPTICS & REVERSE ENGINEERING LAB
Activities
The HAPRE Lab is located at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and specifically at the new building in via La Masa, 1.
The lab is constituted of 2 adjoining places, where the following activities are performed:
- Development and use of haptic devices (Haptic Lab)
- Reverse Engineering technique applications (RE Lab)
1. HAPTIC LAB
The Haptic Lab is equipped with several haptic devices that allow the user to physically touch a 3D virtual object. By using appropriate haptic environment modelling tools, it is possible to generate haptic models, to test several types of materials, and to associate them with the object, and simulate many surface and material properties (i.e. roughness and deformability).
The following prototypes, developed in the framework of European projects, are installed in this lab:
- a prototype of a system conceived for the sculpting of virtual clay, which has been developed in the context of the European Project T’nD - Touch and Design
- a prototype of a new haptic system which allows the evaluation and the modification of product shapes by means of an interface based on a deformable haptic strip, which has been developed in the context of the European Project SATIN.
The lab is equipped with some modelling, simulation and real-time animation tools for virtual environments to be used for the development and the validation of several applications in various research and industrial fields.
Moreover, the equipments that have been used in several European and national research projects, as well as in industrial projects, have been made available to Laurea Magistrale students and PhD students, to carry out researches related to the research topics of their projects and theses.
HAPTIC Equipments
Haptic devices PHANToM
SensAble Inc.
- a PHANToM desktop
- two first generation PHANToM devices
http://www.sensable.com
Immersive Workbench 3D-IW
The system allows to interact with digital models and touch and see them in the same workspace.
SenseGraphics composed by:
- one PHANToM Omni device,
- one 6DOF 3DConnexion mouse, SpaceTraveller
- Stereo Shutter Glasses.
http://www.sensegraphics.com
http://www.3dconnexion.com/
MOOG-FCS Haptic Master
These devices are used for the development of industrial haptic applications. The devices have a wide workplace and exert force feedback of 250 N.
The Haptic Masters have been used for the development of system prototypes applied to the design, for the evaluation and modification of shapes in the framework of the T’nD and SATIN European projects.
http://www.moog-fcs.com
Touch and Design Prototype
The T’nD system has been developed for the modelling of digital shapes by means of a haptic rake.
http://www.touch-and-design.eu
SATIN Prototype
The SATIN system has been conceived with the aim of evaluating and modifying shapes by means of the integration of vision, touch and sound.
http://www.satin-project.eu
2. RE LAB
The Reverse Engineering Lab has been equipped with latest generation devices and systems used for the acquisition of 3D shapes, and with the IT devices essential for the subsequent production of digital models. These equipments have been used in the framework of cross-disciplinary research projects, and in activities conducted in cooperation with industrial partners.
Equipments
Minolta VI-9i Optical Scanner
This Optical laser scanner is used to size out surfaces without contact. The precision of these measuring is equal to 50μm.
http://www.konicaminolta.com/instruments/
Microscribe MX digitizer system
This device is used for sizing out the surfaces with contact. The precision of these measuring is equal to 0.3 mm.
http://www.immersion.com/digitizer/
Next Engine
Optica laser scanner Next Engine, based on an innovative multi-laser technology, named MLT (Multistripe Laser Triangulation).
The precision of these measuring is equal to 0.005 inch.
https://www.nextengine.com/digitizer/
Responsible for the lab: Prof. Monica Bordegoni
e-mail: monica.bordegoni@polimi.it