Swept Volume Generation for Virtual Operation of Micro and Nano-Devices

With the increasing popularity of computer technology, it becomes important to obtain the swept volume of target objects or spatial point sets, effectively. In order to solve the problem, a voxel-based method is proposed to generate swept volume. OpenMP and C++AMP parallel computing technologies are used for fast voxel-based operation. By using C++ AMP technology, the computing speed is improved greatly. Traditionally, swept volume has been used in the field of path planning and industrial assembly. In this paper, swept volume technology is applied to the simulation of virtual operation of micro and nano-devices for the first time. The entire working space of the micro and nano-devices can be obtained by the proposed method, which can be applied for assisting the design of micro and nano-devices in an intuitive way.