Gyroscope Motion Simulator?

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum and to the whole process of designing and building motion simulators. I want to sincerely thank everyone who built and contributed to this community. I'm blown away by all the work you've done.

I'd like to build a motion simulator that could be used for physical and mental rehabilitation. The user will simulate the motions from bodyboarding/riverboarding. Basically, they will lie on a pivoting board that will function as a joystick and kick/pull against sensors with their legs.

I'd like to build motion simulator base in a gyroscope design similar to the amusement park rides. or the Gyrogym workout. If I can't get the gyroscope motion simulator design to work, I will go with a more traditional design.

I hope that the simulator user could play traditional racing and flying games, but also be able to navigate through google's Liquid Galaxy. .

I'd really appreciate any insight that the community can give me. I don't have many technical skills myself, but I do have some friends that should be able to help me build it.

Thanks for any help you can provide,
matt

I didn't fully understand what exactly you want to build.
My Interpretation is that you want to build a gyroscope like in your first video, which is driven by engines rather than by hand.


Connect three motors in the pivotal points and the hoops can turn within each other or around each other.
This certainly means a very stable construction but you’ll need this anyway in such a big gyro that can cope with a human.

Thanks for your post Value 1. You definitely understand the concept. Any thoughts on what type of motor to use?

I was also wondering if the X-Simulator program would support this type of design.

Thanks again for all your help.

Hi matt
Without doing the math I would say you need something much stronger than just wipers, more like 230V (110V) electro motors run by variable-frequency drives (VFD).
x-sim for sure can control them. How easily depends on the motion you want to achieve. Look around in the forum. There are several projects using VFD described.
http://www.google.ch/#q=variable-freque ... mulator.de
I have even seen some finished

Mechanically I think of a cograil all around the outer circumference of the wheels and moving the gyro with this rather than rotating the wheels around the connecting axis. I would think that this reduces the load on the driving shafts. You have to consider quite some inertia.

Hi Value1,

That's exactly the kind of advice that I was hoping for. I really appreciate your help. I'll check out the other projects with VFDs and come up with a game plan for this one.

I'll keep you posted as it slowly moves forward. Thanks again!

Any updates with this ?

I am interested in a similar design, but I will need a concept that will handle safely over 300Kg and using only roll and pitch axis. The tilt angles should be 60 degrees with a high pivot rate of 40 degrees/s.

At what motor options am I looking ?

I was looking at Tronic`s sim and might be a good alternative with some modifications.

tronic-s-full-motion-car-racing-simulator-using-x-sim-t471.html

He uses wipers motors and keeps the weight low.

ask him at www.x-sim.de as he has the info there

Super interested in the gyroscope motion simulator idea. There seems to have been a couple ideas suggested from motors connected to the pivotal points and some sorta cograil system. Im guessing the later would be with a gear system as well. How would the cograil system work, can't really envision it?

Sorry for the delay. I've been slammed at work. I pulled an engineering student in from our local college to help. She's working on some additional sketches to help guide our design.

I keep getting hung up on the cog rail design due to question of how the rider would control the instruments movement and otherwise communicate with the computer from the inside. Are there wireless options that can transmit that much information or am I missing something?

Thanks again for all the comments and help.

Use slip rings. They allow you to wire things to a rotating structure.

Thanks Deltaflyer47. I really appreciate it.

No problem. I'm actually trying to do a similar project if you have any questions or suggestions just pm me.