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US 2013/0252209 A1Published application
Autonomous safety system for the users of vehicle simulators
AssigneeGrenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH
InventorsOlaf Guehring, Holger Schmidt
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for the safe use of a vehicle simulator is provided. The apparatus having an access zone, a rescue unit, a shock absorbing surface, and a projection surface. The rescue unit being moveable with the vehicle simulator.
Claims13
An apparatus for the safe use of a vehicle simulator in the form of a simulation cockpit actuated by a 6-axis robot, in particular of a flight simulator, having
- a) an access zone, which is open to those authorized and has a number of safeguards,
- b) a rescue unit, the rescue unit being moveable on a running rail to each location of the operating zone of the vehicle simulator, wherein this rescue unit has a rescue platform, a railing and a rescue slide,
- c) a shock-absorbing surface installed throughout the operating zone, wherein said surface extends over the operating zone of the cockpit,
- d) a projection surface made up of a plurality of planes.
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A method for the safe use of a vehicle simulator in the form of a simulation cockpit actuated by means of a 6-axis robot, in particular of a flight simulator, having
- a) an access procedure which safeguards the access zone,
- b) provision of a rescue unit which can be moved to any location of the vehicle simulator,
- c) the provision of a shock-absorbing surface installed throughout the operating zone, wherein said surface extends over the operating zone of the cockpit (method steps 6 to 10),
- d) the provision of a projection surface made up of a plurality of planes.
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