Local Model of Interaction for Haptic Manipulation of Rigid Virtual Worlds
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Abstract
In this paper we propose a local model of rigid body interaction that provides users with convincing kinesthetic feedback while they manipulate a virtual tool within a rigid multibody virtual world. The virtual tool can be a rigid object or a linkage. The local model can interface a haptic device to any virtual environment simulation that provides the contact position, the contact normal direction, and the penetration depth of the virtual tool into the virtual world at the virtual tool contacts. The local model includes a proxy of the virtual tool that embeds an approximation of its geometry and of its dynamics, and that eliminates force discontinuities at model updates via proxy deformation. In addition, the model includes active and predicted virtual tool contacts. Predicted contacts are used to maintain force continuity and to better constrain users to tight virtual spaces. Experiments performed within a planar virtual world demonstrate that, compared to prior local models of rigid body interaction, the proposed model enables users to feel stiffer contacts and improves users' perception of free space in locally cluttered virtual environments.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".