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#mymachineandme: Giulia D’Intino & Carlo Gerboni, #PhD students, Max Planck Institute f. Biological #Cybernetics, Tübingen: "This is us with our lovely #CyberMotion Simulator, which we use to investigate how we can make helicopters easy to fly by everyone." @maxplanckpress https://t.co/cQBuv4moHm

#mymachineandme: Giulia D’Intino & Carlo Gerboni, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, with the CyberMotion Simulator.

“This is us with our lovely CyberMotion Simulator. This 8 degrees-of-freedom robotic arm is used to simulate car and helicopter dynamics. The end-effector of the robot is a cabin that can host a person. Inside the cabin, two projectors show high-resolution scenarios that surround the person sitting inside and create a realistic environment. Using advanced motion cueing algorithms, the CyberMotion Simulator provides high-fidelity simulations.
We use the simulator to investigate how we can make helicopters easy to fly by everyone. To achieve this goal, we conduct multiple human-in-the-loop experiments to test different control strategies, haptic systems and novel pilot training methodologies.”

https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/71250/virtual-reality-facilities

Photo: Alexander Baum / MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen /

Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik

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