The spacesuit, particularly the spacesuit glove, creates a barrier between astronauts and their environment. Motivated by the vision of facilitating full-body immersion for effortless space exploration, it is necessary to understand the sensory needs of astronauts during extra-vehicular activities (EVAs). In this paper, we present the outcomes from a two-week field study performed at the Mars D...

This paper presents our work towards achieving a model based approach to three dimensional morphing. It describes the initial algorithms and ideas that we envisioned, the final algorithm we developed and implemented, the environment we worked in, our visualization techniques, and future work planned on the subject. Introduction: Different types of morphing Morphing is an interpolation technique...

Adaptive morphing trailing edge wings have the potential to reduce the fuel burn of transport aircraft. In this paper, we quantify the aerodynamic performance benefits of a morphing trailing using aerodynamic design optimization. The aerodynamic model solves the Reynolds-averaged Navier– Stokes equations with a Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model. A gradient-based optimization algorithm is used i...

III Acknowledgements I would like to thank Mark Stanley and Pete Marshall from SCEE who both provided excellent support during this project whilst I was developing the facial morphing applications. I would also like to thank Paul Porter from Sumo Digital for allowing me to demonstrate the original version of my facial morphing tool and giving me excellent feedback which was used to define the r...

Tidal turbines experience large load fluctuations due to the unsteady environment and shear in tidal flow. Mitigating these without affecting mean would result lower capital operational costs. In this paper we discuss how could be achieved through blades that passively elastically adapt their camber angle of attack counteract flow conditions. Firstly, underlying principles thrust mitigation. We...

In this paper we propose a new method for morphing between two polygonal, possibly non-simply-connected, shapes in the plane. The method is based on reconstructing an xy-monotone surface whose extreme cross-sections coincide with the given shapes. The surface generated by our algorithm does not contain any self-intersections, does not change the topologies of the input slices, does not contain ...

This paper presents a radical new therapy for persecutory auditory hallucinations (“voices”) which are most commonly found in serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. In around 30% of patients these symptoms are not alleviated by anti-psychotic medication. This work is designed to tackle the problem created by the inaccessibility of the patients' experience of voices to the clinician. Pa...

Morphing between 3D objects is a fundamental technique in computer graphics. Traditional methods of shape morphing focus on establishing meaningful correspondences and finding smooth interpolation between shapes. Such methods however only take geometric information as input and thus cannot in general avoid producing unnatural interpolation, in particular for large-scale deformations. This paper...