Keywords

Flight simulators, Motor-driven 3D aircraft model, Stepper motor attitude control, Pitch-yaw-roll attitude replication, Motorola 68000 controller, RS-232 serial interface (3 Hz)

Abstract

The flight simulator display peripheral, described herein, provides the visual aide necessary for observation of effects due to operator responses for any aircraft simulator which prohibits the observers from occupying space within the cockpit of the simulator.

This display peripheral is provided by a three-dimensional, computer-controlled, motor-driven model which duplicates the angular movements generated by the aircraft simulator by moving a model aircraft mounted within a clear plastic ball.

The display utilizes a Motorola 68000 educational computer board to translate the three aircraft angles. pitch, yaw and roll received from the aircraft simulator via an RS-232C compatible serial asynchronous communication interface at a rate of three hertz, into signals used to drive the stepper motors, mounted in a fixed coordinate frame along the three principal axes, to simulate the aircraft orientation.

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Graduation Date

1988

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Bauer, Christian S.

Degree

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Engineering

Degree Program

Engineering

Format

PDF

Pages

123 pages

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Release Date

5-1-2021

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

Identifier

DP0023884

Subjects

Aeronautical instruments--Display systems--Computer simulation; Flight simulators--Design and construction; Flight simulators--Data processing; Flight simulators--Computer programs; Airplanes--Cockpits--Computer simulation

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