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Question 6DOF TEST MACHINE

Discussion in 'Commercial Simulators and Peripherie' started by MikeRuzzo22, Jun 1, 2022.

  1. MikeRuzzo22

    MikeRuzzo22 New Member

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    Hello everybody,
    after almost a year i finally finish to build a 6DOF RIG, not for FUN, but to TEST product at work!
    We are a bike carrier manufacturer and the idea is to test our products in the platform instead driving on the road. In this way we can speed up a lot the devolop of the new products or a new components or materials..and it's a lot safer!
    I order the actuators from PT-Actuator, the controller is form THANOS and i'm trying to use it with FlyPT Mover. Everything seems to work and we already perform some tests, the issues i have are related to settings the software.
    Sometime we want to use DIRT as imput to simulate the real drive ( i can do this, but the movement of the platform is not accurate and it's really aggressive! ) and sometime we want to send a waveform in order to compare different materials with exactly the same test.
    FlyPT Mover has a source loop function to do this, but onlt 2 actuators works correctly, other 2 have a limited movement and the last two doesn't move at all...is it ok? Is there a way to move all the actuators in the same way? Have a look at the video to see what's happen now.

    Thank you all to help me to solve this problem or set up the system correctly ( i spent a lot of time until now, but i can't do more by myself...)

  2. hooshang

    hooshang Active Member

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    could you put all pictures of your setting on Source,Pose,Rigs and Output?
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  3. MikeRuzzo22

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    MikeRuzzo22 New Member

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    I didn't touch anything from the original settings, except the actuators order as explained in the FlyPt Mover website
    actuators order.png

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    hooshang Active Member

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    would you double check your wiring again?
    and more i recommend you test your rig also with Simtools for testing every each actuators separately
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    hooshang Active Member

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    before please setup your Sourse Loop as this picture and try again,
    as you can see just chose vertical acceleration
    Screenshot 2022-06-07 19.18.14.png
  7. MikeRuzzo22

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    so...it seems to work! and it was so easy...thank you so much, sometime you are so close to the result and you didn't know!
    In the meantime today i also watched a youtube tutorial about how to set up DIRT 2 in order to record some real drive and send it in loop. Tomorrow i'll test everything with the platform and let you know.
    Thanks again for now
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    :thumbs