Measurement of Suitability of a Haptic Device in a Virtual Reality System

摘要

In the context of the optimization of the mechanical platform of a virtual reality system involving a haptic device, this paper introduces two tools in order to help the designer for obtaining the best positioning of the device respect to the application workspace. With this purpose we have defined a measure called Average Volumetric Manipulability, of how the application workspace fits in with the volume where haptic device provides its best performance. Also, we have defined other measure called Useful Manipulability which takes in account the frequency with which each zone of the application workspace is visited during the simulation process. The practical use of these measures is demonstrated using them during the design and development of a real application.