Research on physical shape preserving curve reconstruction

Abstract

Fusion of various data is an effective way to improve the precision and efficiency of acquiring information in reverse engineering. A method of physical shape preserving curve reconstruction is proposed to better realize the data fusion of coordinate measuring machine (CMM) and visual information. From the principle of materials mechanics, the strain energy of the curve corresponding to the distortion is advanced as the internal energy, and the elastic potential energy of the curve is established, using a few precise measured data points as the equilibrium position, to be the external energy. On the basis of the principle of variation calculus, the basic spline finite element method (B-spline FEM) is used to determine the equilibrium position of curve deformation. Numerical simulation indicates that there is an extremely good agreement between the new fitted curve and the actual curve.