Wheeled Loader Simulator

Wheeled Loader Simulator

Vertex Wheeled loaders are powerful machines used primarily  in  earth  moving  works  for  loading large amounts of material. Although the most common tasks are loading and hauling bulk materials, the versatility and mobility of these machines allows to play very different roles in construction and mining, such as  the  formation  of  stockpiles  of  material, loading bulky objects, back filling, excavation works, constructing embankments and ramps, spreading material, etc.

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, digging and 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.

·         Loading into trucks

·         Stockpiling

·         Trench excavation

·         Ramp building

·         Automatic and manual gearbox

·         Accurately simulated vehicle drive train

·         Response of the machinery according 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.