Modeling virtual driving environment for a driving simulator

This paper focuses on the development of a virtual driving environment for a real-time driving simulation (DS) to be integrated with other simulator components. The integration between database of driving environment and other driving simulation elements is useful for wide ranges of experiments and investigations related to vehicle simulation. To have a realistic driving simulator, virtual environment (VE) shall be constructed similar to the real world in a relevant framework using the applications of virtual reality (VR). In this research, the graphic quality and speed were optimized using different techniques in order to produce efficient realism and fidelity. The driving scenes were developed in a customized framework, which allow interaction of different computers in a distributed environment. A collaborative network system is required for high-speed connection between different parts of driving simulation in order to have real-time simulation.