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Next generation flight simulator could be your next ground station

Posted by James Mullins on November 20, 2011 at 4:00pm

 

Imagine strapping into one of these instead of your standard head-mounted display for FPV!

The system, while linked to the likes of X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Sim, can take raw input from gyro data etc and put the pilot into that position.  With a Mil-SPEC HMD, the system is really quite immersive and a fun ride.  While not a traditional UAV related post, I thought you might be interested.

 

Check out Universal Motion Simulator Home for more details.

Tags: fpv, flight, haptic, robot, simulator, training
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  • Daniel Hibben November 22, 2011 at 2:11pm

    i use X-plane  it is awesome

  • Niki Regina November 22, 2011 at 12:12pm
    Do you use a flight simulator developed internal or xplane, Microsoft flightsim or something similar?
  • Daniel Hibben November 21, 2011 at 6:42pm

    oh how i wish i was.

    it really does look like fun

  • James Mullins November 21, 2011 at 6:34pm

    Hi Daniel, If you're in Geelong, Australia, right behind you ;)

  • Daniel Hibben November 21, 2011 at 6:03pm

    i love it.

    i have a pocket full of quarters, where does the line form

  • Ellison Chan November 21, 2011 at 8:10am

    At least they're using the equipment.

    I worked at a robotic research lab once where they had an arm connected to a parallel processing VME box.  I was there for about a year, not one of the researchers, and I saw them turn it on once.  Meanwhile, they were busy compiling X10 (before X11), and installing unix file sharing on Macs, because it was cooler.

  • James Mullins November 21, 2011 at 3:15am

    Hi Falvin, We actually have a collaborative relationship with MPI (the researchers behind the video you linked to). Researchers actually work together to improve technologies quite often and I think it would be a sad world if we let technologies like this stay within the one research team.  The idea is that as the research progresses, each team adds it's own spin on the tech.  Imagine what the world would be like if after the Intel 4004 no other research teams got involved designing new chips because there was no funding for further research.  I'd imagine that the DIYdrone community wouldn't be here because Atmel wouldn't exist!  I think we're all here to make things better.  eg. Why make our own drones if someone already has one for sale? So we get funding to make technology better and to add new things.  In our case it's the haptic control inputs that we specialise in.  We've also made advances to the wash in/wash out filters.  Best regards, James CISR Researcher ;)

  • AVS November 21, 2011 at 2:17am

    i feel travel sick just looking at it, but one of my nephews would love it :)

  • falvin November 21, 2011 at 1:36am

    2nd ... how these researchers, get funding for "researching" things that people have already done years before them...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shdS-hynLHg&feature=related

     

  • David November 20, 2011 at 9:10pm

    Wonder how long before the headlines read "Man dies after being pummeled to death by rogue robotic arm flight simulator"   ...looks fun though.

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