Swing-type experience apparatus and method of controlling the same

A swing-type experience apparatus comprising:

• two vertical columns (110) configured to be vertically installed into a ground;
• a driving device (120) configured to be provided at an upper end of any one of the two vertical columns;
• a rotating shaft (130) configured to be provided at upper ends of the two vertical columns in a lateral direction and to be rotated by the driving device;
• two vertical bars (150) configured such that one end of each thereof is fastened to the rotating shaft and a remaining end of each thereof is connected to a horizontal bar (140);
• wherein
• the driving device comprises a motor (121) and a clutch (125) configured to selectively transmit rotating force of the motor and then transfer the rotating force to the rotating shaft (130);
• the clutch is a powder clutch using a magnetic iron powder;
• an encoder configured to detect a rotating direction of the rotating shaft is provided on the rotating shaft;
• the apparatus is configured to operate in
• a help mode in which the rotating force of the driving device is selectively transferred to the rotating shaft through the clutch, and
• a non-help mode in which the rotating shaft is rotated by its own weight and inertia without the rotating force of the driving device being transferred to the rotating shaft;
• and
• the apparatus is further configured to, when an angle which the vertical bars (150) form with a direction perpendicular to the ground is defined as θ, release the help mode as soon as a value of θ reaches 180° and switch a current mode to the non-help mode.