Driving Simulator with motion platform
Hardware
Motion-system
- Stewart-Platform with 6 degrees of freedom (Hexapod)
- 6 electric actuators
- 3 passive pneumatic actuators
- max. payload: 4t
Viewing system
- 180° horizontal field of vision, projected onto a spherical screen
- Interior mirror and two rear mirrors in form of LCD-Displays
- Rate of update: 60 Hz
Mockup
fully equipped BMW 520i, additionally provided with:
- Steering force simulation
- Displays for navigation, secondary tasks, HMI-Examinations etc.
- Operating elements for assistance systems, secondary tasks etc.
- Eye-tracking system
- E-Gas
- Belt pretension system
- Physiological readings recorder (e.g. ECG)
Sound
- 8 channels (including Subwoofer and Shaker)
- 6 loudspeakers in the mockup, 2 outside
Computer network
- 14 PCs
- connected via 100 Mbit ethernet
Software „SILAB“
Control
- The simulation is controlled from a single PC-based workstation
- All measures in the simulation can be observed and recorded (e.g. measures of dynamic performance, physiological measures, surrounding traffic, eye-tracking)
- All simulation parameters are adjustable online (e.g. for designing assistance systems)
Database
- Road networks can be designed by the operator himself
- Interurban and urban scenarios
- Detailed representation of roadway and environmental geometry
- Highly reproducible situations by changing the road network depending on the test-driver’s reactions
- Route-dependant control of any of the simulation’s software-modules
Traffic simulation
- Vehicles can be equipped with various behavior-models.
- Reproducible control of single vehicles
- Generation of stochastic flow of traffic (e.g. heavy oncoming traffic, traffic jam)
- The surrounding cars’ data is available (e.g. for sensor-simulations and recording measurement readings)
- >20 different types of vehicles, each in several colors
Scalability and expandability
- flexible, script-based configurations
- additional computers (e.g. image channels) can be integrated into the simulation, without changing the software
- supports driving simulations ranging from desktop systems to an arbitrary number of involved computers
- Integration of additional components (e.g. assistance systems) via C++, Matlab/Simulink, CAN, TCP