Classic and Adaptive Washout Comparison for a Low Cost Driving Simulator

The paper deals with control of small driving simulator SIM comparing the useless of adaptive and classic approaches. Driving simulators are considering as an interactive virtual reality tools, which take a considerable place in the human factors studies. The difficulty to reproduce in reality some drive situations mainly for risk and reproducibility reasons increases the interest of this tool. Nevertheless, the validation of the experiments carried out on driving simulator is closely related to embedding realism of the driver in the simulated world. In this article, we present the design of a low cost and small motion platform, which allow the restitution of 2 DOF movements. This overall system is considered as two independent systems linked mechanically. The first system consists in motorized rail for the longitudinal movement while the second system consists in motorized seat allowing either pitch movement of this one or just back seat inclination (this case would not be discussed in the rest of paper)