Dozer Simulator

Vertex Dozer Simulator (Cat D6 Type)

Dozers, are powerful machines used primarily in  earthwork  operations  and  for  load dragging. The machine is composed of a tractor, pulled by wheels or crawlers, and a shaped   blade.   Vertex Bulldozer Simulator offers both versions. Although the most common task is to push large quantities of bulk materials, bulldozers also are used to perform ground clearing and ripping, excavating, back filling and road construction works.

Equipment:

• Cabin atop a 2 to 6 DOF platform
•  Real operation console
• Driving pedals
• Instructor's console with full control over the simulation
• Digital sound effects from real environment
• Projection system with 2 to 5 high resolution screens

Special conditions:

• Weather conditions: wind, rain, fog...
• Work with artificial light
• Realistic response to collisions
• Realistic soil and terrain dynamics: mass, cutting forces, inertial properties and collisions affect machine behavior

Machinery malfunction, also injected by the instructor at run-time:

Main Functions

• Theory module.
• Real start-up and stop sequence.
• Driving around the work environment.
• Dozing, spreading and back filling.
• Trench excavation
• Ramp building.
• Road construction
• Automatic and manual gearbox
• Response of the machinery to the load
• On screen information for user and instructor
• Information window with the state and position of the machinery and operation commands

 Reports at the instructor's console:

•  Date
• Starting and ending time
• Time length
• Finished exercises
• Control handling log
• Velocity log
• Collision log
• Dangerous manoeuvres log

 Visualization system

• High quality images, generated in real time.
• 3D graphics.
• Picture textures from a real facility.
• External views displaying machine parameters. Heads-Up Display showing information about positions and machine parameters.