A redesign methodology for Reverse Engineering integrated with haptic modeling

Product redesign has been the main focus of Reverse Engineering (RE), especially for freeform shapes. Research in product redesign has led to the development of some interactive and intuitive deformation methods for freeform curves and surfaces modification with traditional two-dimensional based human-computer interfaces. Haptic interface provides new ways for human to interact with objects in virtual world. In this paper, we propose a new redesign methodology for reverse engineering integrated with haptic modeling, which can fuse its intuitive and flexibility of haptic modeling into smoothness and precision of parametric RE.