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Software position and velocity limiting for a synergistic six degree-of-freedom motion system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. R. Campbell
D. R. Campbell*
Affiliation:
Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Paisley College of Technology, Scotland
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Summary

Hardware and software limiting of the velocity and displacement of motion platform hydraulic jacks is an important source of spurious cue generation in the important frequency range below 2 Hz. Until recently the cross-coupling effect of such limiting has been ignored in motion-drive-software. By setting software limits and scaling jack demands with respect to this limit and the maximum jack demand, a limiting strategy which maintains the directional fidelity of the acceleration cue is achieved. This simple scheme includes a soft limiting approach to reduce motion jerks. In addition the scheme requires negligible extra computing time or storage over the traditional schemes.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 90 , Issue 894 , April 1986 , pp. 121 - 127
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1986 

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