Simulators

Simulators

The Simulators Pack offers a complete solution to optimize the use of any of your simulators with our software SCANeR.

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Optimize the use of SCANeR on your simulators

Whether it’s a compact driving simulator or a simulator carrying an entire vehicle, this Pack will provide features to keep SCANeR working to get the most out of your simulators and bring an unchallenged level of realism.

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Openness

Unique fidelity and enhanced performance

Features

Advanced Force Feedback (FFB) Interface

Allows interfacing and control of professional haptic steering wheel and pedals force feedback hardware.

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From SCANeR GUI the user can easily parametrize the steering wheel and pedals controllers (stiffness, damping, maximal torque, friction, etc.). In addition, it is possible to acquire the torque sensor data from the steering wheel to accurately measure the torque applied by the pilot.

The torque value sent to the hardware can come from the vehicle dynamic model or can be re-computed from a tabulated model.

Characteristics

Measure steering wheel position and driver torque
Send vehicle dynamics model torque to the steering wheel
Send road surface vibrations to the steering wheel
Allow the user to take control over the torque feedback using the API

Active pedals and active shifter support

Active pedals

Gas
Brake and clutch pedals with dynamic force feedback to simulate non-linear response
ABS vibration feedback
Brake fade
Advanced ACC interaction

Active shifter

Configure simulator cabin for automatic or manual gear selection without mechanical intervention
Adapt gear layout based on the vehicle or test parameters.

Additional vibration depending on road types can be parametrized.

Vibration effects

Scale and signal shape
Ground type scale (Cobblestone, Asphalt, Grass, Concrete)

Supported hardware

Gaming device
External device through UDP
Sensodrive
TRW
AVSimulation/OKTAL SW controller

Prerequisites

CAN card

The support for DirectX steering wheels is already included in The Foundation Pack

Additional Sound

Creates a virtual 3D audio environment for the driving simulation in real-time.

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It is based on real sound samples and is generated with its own 3D location.
It can handle multiple channels with 3D spatialization.

Motion

Allows SCANeR to control the motion platform movements in a dynamic simulator.

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It enables active computation of dynamic equations given by the dynamic model.

Characteristics

Monitor the platform state and user safety
Monitor the platform position in real-time in a GUI
Automatic and Manual control
Depending of the simulator mounting, the SCANeR VISUAL mode allows motion compensation (screen mounted or not on the platform, etc.)

Controls

Automatic (default): use the simulation commands to control the motion states.
Manual: allows the supervisor to control manually the motion states in order to deploy and retract the motion platform independently of the simulation states.

Cueing algorithms

Using the Motion platform cueing (built in the controller software)
SERA-CD
Autocue 2
Using the Motion API (part of SCANeR SDK), users can develop/interface their own cueing

Supported hardware

Bosch Rexroth motion platforms
Moog FCS motion platforms
CKAS
D-Box
Using the Motion API (part of SCANeR SDK), users can develop/interface their own custom platform

Warping & Blending

Plug-ins to adapt and distort generated images to display them on curved screens.

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There are two types of plug-ins:

SCANeR internal plug-in that will use information provided by third-parties to compute and apply the modification to be made on the images.
Specific plug-in which completely rely on external software.

Characteristics

Image warping
Image blending
Black level correction
Fustrum adaptation (only dynamic plugins)

Supported systems

ScalableDisplay
DomeProjection
Amateras
Mersive
Vioso

Uses Cases

Interfacing with complex simulators

Our driving simulation software, SCANeR, assists engineers and researchers in transforming modes of transportation. As the demand for sophisticated simulators capable of integrating entire vehicles increases, rest assured that SCANeR seamlessly integrates with these simulators through the simulator pack. This pack offers essential functions for interfacing the software with every aspect of the motion platform, as well as advanced vehicle models, sensors, and cockpit support systems in real time.

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