OSIRIS is a new generation spherical and spatial mechanism
CAD program. It is portable to many computer platforms. OSIRIS is being
developed with computer graphics and this will allow the user to
visualize the entire mechanism and its motion. OSIRIS uses OpenGL for
its graphics library. OSIRIS has full featured GUI and is using the
motif libray to develop its GUI. The spaceball input device with 6
input axes(3 position and 3 orientation) is integrated into OSIRIS.
These 6 input axes allow the user to graphically place all desire
locations. The user can also place locations with the mouse or key in
the desired location's details. The full featured GUI and the spaceball
input device make OSIRIS relatively easy to use.
OSIRIS can synthesize spherical and spatial mechanisms for 2, 3, 4
locations(orientations) and has filters to eliminate most unusable
mechanism designs. There is also a module to help design sperical
mechanisms for general spatial tasks. A guide map will be generated for
four location(orientation) mechanism synthesis. The guide map will
display all possible designs and their mechanism type at one time. This
allows the user to pick and choose which mechanism design best fits the
needs of the desired task. OSIRIS will also generate a guide map for
two location(orientation) mechanism synthesis by using Bézier
motion interpolation which will add another two
locations(orientations).
