Patent ID: 9652583
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: aligning rigid surface data with flexible surface data using a processor, the rigid surface data and the flexible surface data being permitted to overlap when aligned; when aligned, defining the rigid surface data and the flexible surface data based on a same parameter space using the processor; calculating, using the processor, a displacement function within the parameter space based on differences between corresponding ones of first points in the flexible surface data and second points in the rigid surface data; determining, using the processor, a modified position of a first one of the first points in the flexible surface data by modifying the first one of the first points based on a value of the displacement function at a location corresponding to the first one of the first points; calculating, using the processor, a gap between the modified position of the first one of the first points and a second one of the second points corresponding to the first one of the first points; and creating a physical filler to fill a physical gap corresponding to the calculated gap.