A Virtual Reality Toolkit for Path Planning and Manipulation at Nano-scale
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Varol, A.; Gunev, I.; Basdogan, C.
- Source
- 2006 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2006 14th Symposium on. :485-489 2006
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Virtual reality
Path planning
Haptic interfaces
Atomic force microscopy
Humans
Feedback
Surface topography
Probes
Virtual environment
Design engineering
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
path planning
Virtual Reality (VR)
nano-manipulation
haptics
- Language
- ISSN
- 2324-7347
2324-7355
A virtual reality (VR) toolkit that integrates the human operator into a virtual environment by means of visual and haptic feedback has been developed to design and test manipulation strategies at nano-scale. Currently, the toolkit is capable of modeling the mechanistic interactions between an AFM tip and spherical particles on a substrate surface and generating optimum manipulation paths using a potential field approach. In addition, haptic fixtures were designed to guide the user to follow the calculated paths.