Optimal Design Concept of a Reconfigurable Haptic Device

Haptic devices are more and more common for human computer interaction or human machine interaction type applications. Using such devices multimodal interaction can be realized, increasing this way immersibility in the virtual reality environment. This paper presents specific considerations regarding the optimal design process of a class of reconfigurable haptic devices. The main focus of the paper is on the presentation of the novel ReHapy concept and on the details regarding the formulation of the cost function on which the optimal design process will be based.