Computational Design of Kinesthetic Garments

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Date
2022
Authors
Vechev, Velko
Zarate, Juan
Thomaszewski, Bernhard
Hilliges, Otmar
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
Kinesthetic garments provide physical feedback on body posture and motion through tailored distributions of reinforced material. Their ability to selectively stiffen a garment's response to specific motions makes them appealing for rehabilitation, sports, robotics, and many other application fields. However, finding designs that distribute a given amount of reinforcement material to maximally stiffen the response to specified motions is a challenging problem. In this work, we propose an optimization-driven approach for automated design of reinforcement patterns for kinesthetic garments. Our main contribution is to cast this design task as an on-body topology optimization problem. Our method allows designers to explore a continuous range of designs corresponding to various amounts of reinforcement coverage. Our model captures both tight contact and lift-off separation between cloth and body. We demonstrate our method on a variety of reinforcement design problems for different body sites and motions. Optimal designs lead to a two- to threefold improvement in performance in terms of energy density. A set of manufactured designs were consistently rated as providing more resistance than baselines in a comparative user study.
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CCS Concepts: Applied computing --> Computer-aided manufacturing; Computing methodologies --> Physical simulation

        
@article{
10.1111:cgf.14492
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
Computational Design of Kinesthetic Garments
}}, author = {
Vechev, Velko
and
Zarate, Juan
and
Thomaszewski, Bernhard
and
Hilliges, Otmar
}, year = {
2022
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/cgf.14492
} }
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