Apparatus to simulate driving a land vehicle
AssigneeVi-Grade AG
InventorDiego Minen
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Abstract
Apparatus to simulate driving a land vehicle comprising a fixed base platform (11), a mobile platform (12) disposed above the base platform (11), a drive station (13) associated with the mobile platform (12), and movement means (18) associated with the base platform (11) and with the mobile platform (12) to provide the movement of the mobile platform (12) with respect to the base platform (11).
Claims11
Apparatus to simulate driving a land vehicle comprising a fixed base platform provided with a flat support surface, a mobile platform disposed above said base platform, sliding means associated with the mobile platform and configured to allow said mobile platform to slide on said support surface, a drive station associated with the mobile platform, and movement means associated with the base platform and with the mobile platform to allow the translation of said mobile platform on said support surface in a first direction and a second direction coordinated with the first direction, and at least a rotation around a third direction normal with respect to said support surface and coordinated with respect to the first direction and the second direction, wherein said movement means comprise a plurality of cables connected with a first end to said mobile platform and with a second end, opposite the first end, to respective actuation members configured to move said cables and to vary the distance between the connection zone of each cable to said mobile platform and the connection zone of each cable to said actuation members and to determine a movement of said mobile platform with respect to said base platform.
Method to simulate driving a land vehicle which comprises the movement of a mobile platform, provided with a drive station, on a flat support surface of a fixed base platform by means of movement means associated with the base platform and with the mobile platform, said movement providing to make said mobile platform slide, by means of sliding means, on said support surface, making it translate in a first direction and a second direction coordinated with the first direction, and to rotate around a third direction normal with respect to said support surface and coordinated with the first direction and the second direction, wherein said movement provides to drive a plurality of actuation members associated with a plurality of cables connected with a first end to said mobile platform and with a second end, opposite the first end, to said actuation members, the drive of said actuation members determining the variation in the distance between the connection zone of each cable to said mobile platform and the connection zone of each cable to said actuation members, and determining the movement of said mobile platform with respect to said base platform.
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