A haptic hybrid controller for virtual prototyping of vehicle mechanisms

In this paper the Haptic Buck, a system to interactively design and evaluate vehicle mechanisms, is presented as an alternative to physical prototyping. At the core of the package are a 3D GUI interface to quickly and intuitively design and modify mechanisms and a novel haptic control scheme to achieve high-quality rendering of very large mechanisms, such as full scale modeling of vehicle liftgate, doors, and seat assemblies.