Abstract: A monitor game machine comprising a cock-pit or driver cabin in which a player is seated, a monitor disposed at the front of said cock-pit, and a steering device operated by the player in response to pictures displayed on the screen of said monitor. The driver seat is inclined backward and forward, and right and left in response to the movement of said steering device.
Abstract: A servomechanical controller for inputting prerecorded flight data to an aircraft flight simulator is provided which comprises a pair of servomotors operatively interconnected to a single output shaft connected to the flight simulator control wheel, one motor controlling simulated pitch to the wheel by imparting axial movement to the shaft, and the other motor controlling simulated roll by imparting rotation to the shaft, transducer means for sensing both angular and axial position of the shaft, and a force sensor for sensing torque and axial load on the shaft. The controller is configured for accepting analog or digital prerecorded electronic command inputs and translating those inputs to the flight simulator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 11, 1982
Date of Patent:
January 24, 1984
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
Abstract: A control stick simulator for use in a part task trainer for pilots utili a bending beam in cooperation with deflection sensing transducers to output pitch and roll commands. The control stick is a cantilevered metallic beam, arrested by stops in a mounting flange near a handgrip at its upper end, thereby presenting an isometric feel to the pilot.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 12, 1982
Date of Patent:
December 27, 1983
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
Inventors:
Lawrence Hayashigawa, Bertram W. McFadden
Abstract: A flight simulating system is provided with a manually operated control member connected to a servomechanism which responds to manual input by the control member and reacts to provide realistic feedback to the control member in accord with simulated flight conditions. For this purpose, a combining circuit, a dividing circuit and two integrator circuits are provided in series. The combining circuit has an input which represents manual input force to the control member and another input from the flight-simulating computer which represents simulated internal forces acting on the controlled member and the dividing circuit divides the output of the combining circuit by a value representing the mass of the control member to produce a control member acceleration-related signal. This acceleration-related signal is integrated twice to produce, respectively, a control member velocity-related signal and a control member position-related signal.