Hydraulic Excavator Simulator

Hydraulic Excavator Simulator

Vertex Hydraulic Excavators are capable of digging deeper and more efficiently than most other earthmoving equipment. They are primarily used to dig above and below grade, and can also be used to trench,  load  material  into  trucks  and  lift light   loads   using   slings.   The   upper structure of the excavator is composed by a hoe, the operator’s cab and the engine compartment, and it rests and rotates on a turntable supported by an undercarriage with tracks. The turntable is capable of rotating 360º, allowing the operator to dig and load in tighter areas in a timelier manner.

Equipment:

·         Real operation console

·         Cabin atop a 2 to 6DOF platform

·         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: soil mass, digging forces, inertial properties and collisions affect

 machine behaviour.

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.

·         Loading into trucks

·         Stockpiling

·         Trench excavation

·         Ramp building

·         Accurately simulated vehicle drive train

·         Automatic gearbox and manual

·         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.