A new approach to design the ruled surface.

This paper considers a kind of design of a ruled surface. The design interconnects some concepts from the fields of computer-aided geometric design (CAGD) and kinematics. Dual unit spherical Bézier-like curves on the dual unit sphere (DUS) are obtained by a novel method with respect to the control points. A dual unit spherical Bézier-like curve corresponds to a ruled surface by using Study's transference principle and closed ruled surfaces are determined via control points and also, integral invariants of these surfaces are investigated. Finally, the results are illustrated by several examples and the motion interpolation was shown as an embodiment of this method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]