SOME TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN DRIVING SIMULATION
POSSIBLE APPROACHES TO CONSTRUCTING A DRIVING SIMULATOR ARE DESCRIBED. THIS SPECIFIC PROBLEM ARISING IN THAT CONCEPTION OF A SIMULATOR WHICH USED A MODEL AS THE SOURCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL INPUT IS ANALYZED. ONE METHOD ANALYZED FOR ACCOMPLISHING THIS PURPOSE INVOLVES LONGITUDINAL RELATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE PICKUP WHICH REPRESENTS THE CAR. THE PICKUP MOVES ALONG OVER A PANEL WHICH SLIDES BACKWARDS SIMULTANEOUSLY AT GREATER THAN PICKUP SPEED. A SECOND METHOD HAS TWO PANELS LAID END TO END AND THE PICKUP STARTS AT THE JUNCTURE OF THE PANELS GOING OUTWARD ON THE CARRIER PANEL WITH RESPECT TO THE SURROUNDING TERRAIN. IT TRAVELS IN A STRAIGHT LINE UNTIL IT REACHES THE END OF THE PANEL ROAD AND THEN CROSSES OVER INTO THE NEXT CARRIER PANEL. THE PANEL IS CONTINUOUSLY ROTATED THROUGH 180 DEGREES AROUND AN AXIS AT ITS CENTROID WHILE THE PICKUP TRAVELS ALONG THE PANEL. THE EQUATIONS OF MOTION OF THIS METHOD ARE RATHER COMPLEX.
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Supplemental Notes:
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Authors:
- Fox, Bernard H
- Publication Date: 1960
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Pagination: 6p
- Monograph Title: Driving simulators and application of electronics to highways
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Serial:
- Highway Research Board Bulletin
- Issue Number: 261
- Publisher: Highway Research Board
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Design; Driving simulators; Equations; Mathematical models; Mechanics; Motion
- Uncontrolled Terms: Models
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00219959
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Mar 12 1994 12:00AM