Multipurpose virtual-reality-based motion simulator

Abstract

Public security has become an important issue everywhere. Especially, the safe manipulation and control of various machines and vehicles has gained special attention such that the authorities keep emphasizing the strict training and censoring of human operators. Currently, such training and censoring process usually relies on the actual machines, equipment, or vehicles in the real sites. This not only has high demands in space, time and cost, but also causes another phase of public security problem. In this connection, the world-wide trend is to tackle the above dilemma by using virtual reality (VR). However, the current researches or products on VR are more matured in the software display part of VR. How to combine 3D VR display with motion platform to achieve the aforementioned training and censoring purposes is an important research issue. This paper focuses on this research issue, and the goal is to develop a multipurpose virtual-reality-based motion simulation system to meet the requirements of public security in training and censoring of human operators.