This paper presents a mass-spring model for real-time simulation of volume preserving deformable solids. A new type of springs that show collective behaviour was developed called "support springs", which model the "matter" inside the object and make it preserve its volume without the need of explicit volume computations during the simulation as it is done in conventional methods. Comparing the ...

The purpose of the research conducted was to develop a real-time surgical simulator for preoperative planning of surgery in congenital heart disease. The main problem simulating procedures on cardiac morphology is the need for a large degree of detail and simulation speed. In combination with a demand for physically realistic real-time behaviour this gives us tradeoffs not easily balanced. The ...

Autonomous applications of legged platforms will inevitably require accurate state estimation both for feedback control as well as mapping and planning. Even though kinematic models and low-bandwidth visual localization may be sufficient for fully-actuated, statically stable legged robots, they are inadequate for dynamically dexterous, underactuated platforms where second order dynamics are dom...

In vascular interventional surgery, the virtual reality simulation is indispensable for catheter-based operation system because it provide the surgeon of visual scene between catheter and vascular. However, most VR systems only present the vascular geometry model which indicates vascular is a rigid object. So as to display the deformation of vascular, it is necessary to consider the vascular ph...

In this paper, we study the nonlinear response of the nonlinear mass-spring model with nonsmooth stiffness. For this purpose, we take as prototype model, a system that consists of the double-well smooth potential with an additional spring component acting on the system only for large enough displacement. We focus our study on the analysis of the homoclinic orbits for such nonlinear potential fo...

The technology of cloth simulation can be used in many fields. Based on physical model of cloth simulation, we established the simulation system with a simplified mass-spring model. A modified implicit method was proposed in order to produces realistic animation. This method can increase the computational efficiency to a large extent and is easy to be realized with a stable and good real-time p...

In this paper we consider a nonlinear strongly damped wave equation as a model for a controlled spring–mass–damper system and give some results concerning its large time behaviour. It can be seen that the infinite dimensional system admits a twodimensional attracting manifold where the equation is well represented by a classical nonlinear oscillations ODE, which can be exhibited explicitly. In ...

During human and animal locomotion, the dynamics of the body can be represented with the help of simplified biomechanical models, such as the spring-mass model (often described as spring-loaded inverted pendulum, SLIP model). In this model, it is assumed that the force generated by each limb resembles that of a linear spring. Furthermore, it is assumed that force generated by the leg mainly act...

In this paper an original application of spring-mass based model to NURBS surface reconstruction from point clouds is described. In last few years spring-mass models have been largely and successfully applied in Computer Animation for cloth simulation, but their application has been limited to non-Engineering fields. Following the physical metaphor of laying a cloth over a non-structured set of...

In the near future, occurring extreme ground motions exceeding structural design level is predicted. If such are input to a base-isolated building, building may collide retaining wall and damage so counterplans against important issues. Aim analyze behavior of when it collides with wall, we have proposed simple modeling method for lateral resistance backfill soil using line elements. this metho...