HALF-DAY
TUTORIAL T4:
This tutorial will cover the aims and
methods of reverse engineering of solid models. The initial discussion will
consider the reasons for doing reverse engineering, and how the characteristics
of different object types require different approaches. Key phases of reverse
engineering will then be discussed in detail: data acquisition, merging data
sets, triangulation, decimation, segmentation, surface fitting, blend recovery,
initial model building, topological beautification, and geometric beautification.
Ralph Martin has been working in the field of CADCAM since 1979. He obtained his PhD in 1983 from Cambridge University for a dissertation on "Principal Patches", and since then has worked his way up from Lecturer to Professor at Cardiff University. He has had published over 130 papers and 9 books covering such topics as solid modelling, surface modelling, intelligent sketch input, vision based geometric inspection, geometric reasoning and reverse engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and a Member of the British Computer Society. He is on the editorial boards of "Computer Aided Design" and the "International Journal of Shape Modelling", and has been active in the organisation of many conferences.