US 12,710,736 B1Granted

Generation of electrically enabled, doubly curved surfaces

AssigneeHoneywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC

InventorsRyan John Eickbush, Carlos Velez, Jaime Eduardo Regis, Jackson Dale White

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Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating an electrically enabled, doubly curved surface. A method may include generating a point cloud array associated with a 2-dimensional design of the unit cell design, wherein the point cloud array includes a plurality of points. The method may include determining a polar coordinate for each point of the plurality of points from the point cloud array such that a set of polar coordinates is obtained, determining an absolute value of a radial distance of each polar coordinate from the set of polar coordinates, normalizing the absolute value of the radial distance of each polar coordinate from the set of polar coordinates to obtain a set of normalized polar coordinates, interpolating the set of normalized polar coordinates to obtain the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface, and generating instructions for a tool path of the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for generating instructions for a tool path for an electrically enabled, doubly curved surface, the system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method for generating the instructions for the tool path for the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface, the method comprising:
generating a 2-dimensional design of a unit cell design;
generating a point cloud array associated with the 2-dimensional design of the unit cell design,
wherein the point cloud array comprises a plurality of points;
generating the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface associated with the point cloud array, wherein generating the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface comprises:
determining a polar coordinate for each point of the plurality of points from the point cloud array such that a set of polar coordinates is obtained;
determining an absolute value of a radial distance of each polar coordinate from the set of polar coordinates;
normalizing the absolute value of the radial distance of each polar coordinate from the set of polar coordinates to obtain a set of normalized polar coordinates;
and
interpolating the set of normalized polar coordinates to obtain the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface;
and
generating the instructions for the tool path associated with the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, perform a method for generating instructions for a tool path for an electrically enabled, doubly curved surface, the method comprising:

generating a 2-dimensional design of a unit cell design,
wherein the 2-dimensional design comprises a plurality of points along a singular line;
generating the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface associated with the 2-dimensional design, wherein generating the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface comprises:
determining a polar coordinate for each point of the plurality of points from the 2-dimensional design such that a set of polar coordinates is obtained;
determining an absolute value of a radial distance of each polar coordinate from the set of polar coordinates;
normalizing the absolute value of the radial distance of each polar coordinate from the set of polar coordinates to obtain a set of normalized polar coordinates;
and
interpolating the set of normalized polar coordinates to obtain the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface;
and
generating the instructions for the tool path associated with the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface.

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A method for generating instructions for a tool path for an electrically enabled, doubly curved surface, the method comprising:

generating a 2-dimensional design of a unit cell design;
generating a point cloud array associated with the 2-dimensional design of the unit cell design,
wherein the point cloud array comprises a plurality of points;
generating the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface associated with the point cloud array, wherein generating the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface comprises:
determining a polar coordinate for each point of the plurality of points from the point cloud array such that a set of polar coordinates is obtained;
determining an absolute value of a radial distance of each polar coordinate from the set of polar coordinates;
normalizing the absolute value of the radial distance of each polar coordinate from the set of polar coordinates to obtain a set of normalized polar coordinates;
and
interpolating the set of normalized polar coordinates to obtain the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface;
and
generating the instructions for the tool path associated with the electrically enabled, doubly curved surface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.