Tronic's Full motion car racing simulator using x-sim

[tronicgr]

This is my full motion simulator that I recently converted it to car racing simulator with the use of x-sim software.

EDIT: ---UPDATES from my last participation on Athens Digital Week robotics show---


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVItAoPYUtI&fmt=18


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiS7rIv-Xf8&fmt=18


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFw763FJmm4&fmt=18


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58NmXpLe8_A&fmt=18


In the videos I used LiveForSpeed which is one of the best car racing simulation game.


Its based on the old joyrider design but I motorized it with the use of car windshield wiper motors.

On earlier videos I used a Basic Stamp2 microcontroler to read the data from the USO interface of the x-sim. And the motors were driven with the use of Parallax's HB-25 motor controllers that converts the wiper motors to big servos! But now I moved on to the advanced motion control methods with DIY motion controller interface AMC1.5 and my own DIY h-bridge motior controller DSMhb1.2b. See more info about it here:
http://www.x-simulator.de/forum/tronic-s-amc-motor-motion-controller-with-pwm-servo-output-t559.html

Original details on the construction course can be found in Greek laguage here:
Greek Motion Flight Simulator

And in English, on my first website attempt here:
Thanos Home Motion Flight Simulator


Want better quality videos of my simulator? Try downloading these:
http://rapidshare.com/files/196223155/Thanos_joyrider_in_ADW.wmv
http://rapidshare.com/files/196230770/FMS_LFS_Z_DATA_MIX_1.wmv
http://rapidshare.com/files/48921586/FMSxsimlfsfixedresponce.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/143101559/LFS_instruments_demo_2_RC_servo.wmv
...more to come!


Thanos

[egoexpress]

Hey Thanos

Congrats! The movements seem quite perfect!

It should be noticed, that the entire construction is made without soldering. All parts could be purchased via the local DIY store. And the racing seat is a really great inmprovement!

BTW: The music track in the third vid is my favourite

ego

[sirnoname]

Hi,

seems your speed movement make the sim very smooth,
the gear effekt is not really perceptible. Perhaps the smoothnes slider from the g-effects ?

But the overall is very impressive. I hope you will make a own projekt page
with your detailed interface description, so other can build it ?

cu

[tronicgr]

@ Sinoname

Yes the gear effect isn't notisable in video but its there. You can feel the small vibration during the shift changes. It is more notiseable on slower cars that take more time to shift...!

Another thing is that I filtered the sudden moves to the half (using the smooth sliders) to avoid braking apart the motors! It needs more tweaking in both x-sim software and inside the microcontroller code to find the best conbination of safety and speed. After all the motors behave as really big servos they just follow the position point that x-sim instructs. No washout is implemented at all!!!

I will post complete plans of the motion cockpit soon on http://www.etherealsounds.com/

Thanos

[tronicgr]

I also uploaded the videos in DVD quality here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/43577799/fu ... simLFS.rar


Enjoy, Thanos

[tronicgr]

Yesterday a friend made a visit and tryied my motion simulator. So I took the opportunity to make some new videos with a closer look into the mechanics while they operate!!

[EDIT: There is a lag noticable in the following two videos, that have been caused due to Profiler1 issues, which have been sorted out now]

Full motion sim on LFS using xsim fun part1



Full motion sim on LFS using xsim fun part2


And here you can download the above videos in DVD quality format:
http://rapidshare.com/files/45751149/Fu ... ingFun.rar



You can see the fun that Dimos had while riding it...


Regards, Thanos

[egoexpress]

Just have seen your new vid with fixed response time... great!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Quuqhjnxwq4

ego

[tronicgr]

Just have seen your new vid with fixed response time... great!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Quuqhjnxwq4

ego

And here is the same video in DVD quality that you can download here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/48921586/FM ... sponce.zip

Thanks, Thanos

[Raceray]

Thats really great. The movement looks very acurat and precisly...and fast!!!

As longer as i a watch your movie, i like the construction of your frame more and more, although it does not fit in every livingroom due to the size of it.

your interface works very well...nice work!!!

[tronicgr]

Enjoy the latest video on the motion cockpit racing with a XF-GTR...


FMS on LFS using X-sim, Few laps in XF-GTR




Best Regards, Thanos