A vehicle nonlinear dynamics simulation device, such as flight simulator, including a motorized spherical vehicle suspended inside another spherical shell which has smooth inner surface. The spherical vehicle is supported by a plurality of spiky legs of either air-bearing assemblies or omni-directional ball bearing assemblies. The outer spherical shell is supported by three controllable translational motion platforms. Simulating equipment for a pilot cabin is mounted inside the spherical vehicle. The spherical vehicle has driving, restoring, and damping capabilities in roll, pitch, and yaw directions and is capable to rotate 360 in any directions. Therefore it provides a dynamically equivalent model to simulate a vehicle rotational dynamics. The driving and restoring means include Omni wheel assemblies mounted outside of the spherical vehicle and operable to contact the inner surface of the shell to drive the spherical vehicle in roll, pitch, and yaw directions. The driving means include electrical motors. The restoring and damping mechanisms are provided by rotational springs and rotational dampers, respectively. The rotational movements of the spherical vehicle are active and controlled by the driving system and also by the nonlinear dynamics of the spherical vehicle itself, in contrast to the passive movements of the simulation platforms currently used in industries.

A seat support mechanism of a driving simulator for a four-wheeled automobile includes a lower frame (2) that is supported on a base (1) at one front point by a universal joint (6) and at two back points by cylinder actuators (5). The seat support mechanism further includes an upper frame (3) that is supported on the lower frame at one front point by a universal joint (8) and at two back points by cylinder actuators (7). The one front point and the two back points are arranged so as to form a substantially isosceles triangle that has the one front point as the apex, and a seat is mounted on and fixed to the upper frame.

A motion simulation apparatus includes a motion platform. A carrier for carrying a user is mounted on the motion platform. The apparatus has a drive arm with a lower end that is pivotally mounted on a substrate to pivot relative to the substrate with two degrees of freedom of movement and an upper end that is pivotally connected to the motion platform to pivot with respect to the motion platform with two degrees of freedom of movement. The apparatus has two guide arms, each guide arm having a lower end that is pivotally mounted on the substrate to pivot relative to the substrate with three degrees of freedom of movement and an upper end that is pivotally connected to the motion platform to pivot relative to the motion platform with three degrees of freedom of movement. The drive arm, the guide arms and the motion platform define a dynamic frame that can pivot with respect to the substrate such that a resultant movement of the motion platform can be imparted to the carrier.

A simulator assistance method and system adaptively mitigates Pilot Induced Oscillations (PIOs) with respect to axes of rotation about the vehicle's center of mass. The method detects PIOs in a body rate signal by band pass filtering the body rate signal, and provides an adaptive response based on the amplitude of the body rate signal within the frequency band.

A method includes, for each of two or more driving sessions in which a student driver operates a vehicle, gathering driving skill data indicative of at least one of behavior of the student driver, acceleration of the vehicle, braking of the vehicle, or steering of the vehicle, and generating a driving session report. The method further includes causing the driving session reports corresponding to the two or more driving sessions to be displayed to a driving instructor, and receiving comments from the driving instructor about the two or more driving sessions of the student driver. Still further, the method includes storing the driving session reports corresponding to the two or more driving sessions along with the received comments from the driving instructor.

The invention relates to an ejection seat simulator of extraction parachute type for experiencing escape from a manned aircraft which includes a base, a guide rail, a power device, a somatosensory seat, a head-mounted display, and a pair of control pull ring. A box, a controller and an air pump are disposed on the base. The power device includes a first support plate, a hydraulic rod, a guide wheel set, a first shaft, a connecting plate, a motor and a gear set. The control pull ring includes a ring body and a pull rope. The ring body is inlaid with a control button, a wireless transmission module, a tension sensor and a buffer spring. The ejection seat simulator of extraction parachute type for experiencing escape from a manned aircraft of the invention has advantages of having reasonable and simple structure, easy to operate, low price, safe and reliable, strong authenticity, high intelligence, which effectively solves the problem of being unable to experience or train escape in ejection seats in the real manned aircrafts.

The invention relates to an ejection seat simulator of extraction parachute type for experiencing escape from a manned aircraft which includes a base, a guide rail, a power device, a somatosensory seat, a head-mounted display, and a pair of control pull ring. A box, a controller and an air pump are disposed on the base. The power device includes a first support plate, a hydraulic rod, a guide wheel set, a first shaft, a connecting plate, a motor and a gear set. The control pull ring includes a ring body and a pull rope. The ring body is inlaid with a control button, a wireless transmission module, a tension sensor and a buffer spring. The ejection seat simulator of extraction parachute type for experiencing escape from a manned aircraft of the invention has advantages of having reasonable and simple structure, easy to operate, low price, safe and reliable, strong authenticity, high intelligence, which effectively solves the problem of being unable to experience or train escape in ejection seats in the real manned aircrafts.

A device for spatially moving persons includes a first support element, which includes a retaining device for at least one person and which is rotatable about a first rotational axis relative to a second support element. A second support element rotatably mounted about a second rotational axis relative to a third support element. The first rotational axis and the second rotational axis are substantially orthogonal to each other. The device further includes an image playback surface. The retaining device has at least one rotational degree of freedom relative to the image playback surface.

A device for spatially moving persons includes a first support element, which includes a retaining device for at least one person and which is rotatable about a first rotational axis relative to a second support element. A second support element rotatably mounted about a second rotational axis relative to a third support element. The first rotational axis and the second rotational axis are substantially orthogonal to each other. The device further includes an image playback surface. The retaining device has at least one rotational degree of freedom relative to the image playback surface.

A pilot training system includes a training terminal integrated with a pilot training seat with a seat pan having six degrees of freedom, wherein the training terminal is configured to exclusively provide and render a simulated flight-training environment and to output control signals to synchronize movement of the seatpan with the simulated environment. The system is transportable so that it can be used to provide flight training at a user-selected and repositionable location. The system also may include an instructor terminal located at an instructor site. The training site and the instructor site can be remotely located. The instructor may provide remote instruction or training to a trainee, for example by sending instruction inputs to the training terminal over the network in order to control aspects of the simulated environment.