Tessellation and Connection System for Space Assembly of Modular Units

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for mapping a planar surface to a curved surface. One such method comprises providing a planar lattice pattern having identical regular polygon shapes which can be truss support modules for supporting a curved surface structure. Method further inc...

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Main Authors WONG, I.O.K. M, MIKHOPADHYAY, ROUNAK, COOPER, JOHN R, WALTZ, WALTER J, WHITE, BRACE W, DORSEY, JOHN T, SHEAFFER, DAMON E, ALLEN, B.DANETTE, PADDOCK, DAVID A, SONG, KYONGCHAN, KANG, DAVID, PLANT, JAMES V, DOGGETT, William R, WILLIAMS, RALPH A, COSGROVE, PATRICK A, CLINE, JULIA E, MARTIN, ROBERT F, VAUGHAN, MATTHEW P, TETER, JR., JOHN E, SHAZLY, SHERIF A
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 31.03.2022
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:The present disclosure describes systems and methods for mapping a planar surface to a curved surface. One such method comprises providing a planar lattice pattern having identical regular polygon shapes which can be truss support modules for supporting a curved surface structure. Method further include determining respective positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes by placing a starting nodal point on an axis of symmetry of the planar lattice pattern and iteratively positioning each nodal point in relation to already placed neighboring nodes to make a distance between a currently positioned nodal point optimally close with a set value of the planar lattice pattern. Method still further comprises forming a curved lattice pattern of the truss support module based on the positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202117487598