Virtual Environment for Ship-Mounted Cranes

Lance Arsenault, Ali H. Nayfeh, John Kelso and Ron Kriz
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg Virginia, VA 24061

A crane ship simulator in a Computer Automated Virtual Environment (CAVE^TM) is being developed at Virginia Tech. A motion platform will be used to provide motion cueing to the user of this simulator. The user will be immersed in a virtual environment, with a four-wall CAVE (which has three vertical walls and a floor), motion base with operator seat, control console with joystick crane controls, and four-channel sound.

Crane Ship Simulator Presentations at the MURI

• html presentation, MURI Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, October 4-5, 1999
• MS baked html version and the original MS power point version, MURI Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, March 29, 2000
• MS power point presentation, MURI Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, Oct 16, 2000

Other Crane Ship Simulator docs

• 2001FebReport.html
• pictures of the simulator running