Name
Title | ||
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Pteromys: interactive design and optimization of free-formed free-flight model airplanes |
Abstract | ||
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This paper introduces novel interactive techniques for designing original hand-launched free-flight glider airplanes which can actually fly. The aerodynamic properties of a glider aircraft depend on their shape, imposing significant design constraints. We present a compact and efficient representation of glider aerodynamics that can be fit to real-world conditions using a data-driven method. To do so, we acquire a sample set of glider flight trajectories using a video camera and the system learns a nonlinear relationship between forces on the wing and wing shape. Our acquisition system is much simpler to construct than a wind tunnel, but using it we can efficiently discover a wing model for simple gliding aircraft. Our resulting model can handle general free-form wing shapes and yet agrees sufficiently well with the acquired airplane flight trajectories. Based on this compact aerodynamics model, we present a design tool in which the wing configuration created by a user is interactively optimized to maximize flight-ability. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our tool for glider design by novice users, we compare it with a traditional design workflow. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2014 | 10.1145/2601097.2601129 | ACM Trans. Graph. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
aerodynamics,fabrication,optimization,physically based modeling | Wing,Interactive design,Simulation,Computer science,Airplane,Design tool,Glider,Free flight,Wing configuration,Aerodynamics | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
33 | 4 | 0730-0301 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
47 | 1.53 | 28 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nobuyuki Umetani | 1 | 382 | 22.58 |
| Yuki Koyama | 2 | 113 | 10.47 |
| Ryan Schmidt | 3 | 567 | 26.74 |
| Takeo Igarashi | 4 | 3113 | 206.25 |