A Review of Dynamic Vehicular Motion Simulators: Systems and Algorithms

Vehicular motion simulators have evolved to become an important contributor to major industries, including defense, aerospace, and vehicle manufacturing. During the past few decades, many efforts have been made towards developing robust, adaptive motion simulators with the highest level of fidelity and realism. Thus, it is important to recollect, in order to evaluate the current state of complex robotic systems, encouraging careful planning of further improvements in the future. This article focuses on the current motion simulators’ structural designs and working principles alongside the currently developed motion control algorithms to achieve the highest fidelity. Furthermore, within the era of industry 4.0 and the fast-paced merging of technologies into key industries, some suggestions are made for future works which it is believed are worth investigating to provide robustness and adaptivity to the control of simulation systems, improving their fidelity and realism alongside reducing motion sickness experienced by the simulator operator.