The Special Amphibious Vehicle Driving Simulator Design and Development

Driving simulators are largely employed in automotive industry, government, military and academic research fields. This paper provides an overview of the development of a kind of special amphibious vehicle driving simulator. A modularization structure was developed according to the structure character, maintainability and fixing space requirement which provide a kind of convenient methods to replace failure device and cut down simulator maintenance cycle effectively. A mixed network structure based on PC was developed which was used to change information between computers and simulated cabin device. A special amphibious vehicle dynamics simulation model was proposed for use on the driving simulator adopting Commercial-of-The-Shelf (COTS) product Matlab/Simulink and Rapid Control Prototype (RCP) technology. The experiment results shows that the amphibious vehicle driving simulator can provide the near same performance as the actual vehicle and improve the driver's operation skill effectively.