Real-time two-way coupling of ship simulator with virtual reality application

We present several new methods to promote the ship simulator applied to both physically and graphically real-time dynamic rendered ocean. The simulation system is divided into three subsystems, the ships dynamics system, the hydrodynamics system, and two ways coupling between them. We apply hydrodynamic and mechanics to simulate the ocean surface and ship model respectively. In this paper, wave decay is taken into consideration waves propagating velocity due to sea floor terrain, wave generated by object floating on the ocean and reflection of wave due to conflict with the ship. On the other hand, the ship would be affected not only by buoyancy but also viscosity, current, wave and damping. Finally we integrate this algorithm to a 6 DOF platform and construct a virtual ships driving simulator.