Project number
16033
Organization
Wittenstein
Academic year
2016-2017
The sponsor’s effort to improve its rotary aircraft simulation suite includes investigating how vibration is induced in its simulator. This entails expanding the system from vibrating the seat to vibrating the entire simulator platform.
Adding vibration feedback will better prepare pilots in training for the rotor feedback they would feel in a real aircraft. The goal of this project is to research existing vibration platforms and develop a new vibration system for the sponsor.
The system designed performs at or beyond the required performance standards while providing a marketable product for the sponsor to package with its simulator. Components of the design were stress-tested in SolidWorks; the design was finalized and test methods were written for the system, were it to be constructed.
Adding vibration feedback will better prepare pilots in training for the rotor feedback they would feel in a real aircraft. The goal of this project is to research existing vibration platforms and develop a new vibration system for the sponsor.
The system designed performs at or beyond the required performance standards while providing a marketable product for the sponsor to package with its simulator. Components of the design were stress-tested in SolidWorks; the design was finalized and test methods were written for the system, were it to be constructed.