INDICA
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- Full name
- INDICA - Motion-based simulator for the forklift driving training
- Acronym
- INDICA
- Website
- http://www.indica.lucense.it/
- Keywords
- Inertial feedback
3d audio software system training, simulator, forklift
- Budget
- € Tot. elig. costs Tot. grant Priv. Co-fin.
Totale 6.000.000 5.124.000 876.000 Az.1 1.640.000 1.394.000 246.000
- Start date
- 12/1/2002
- End date
- 2/1/2004
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Partners
Funding Bodies
- [[Programma regionale di Azioni Innovative (PRAI) Innovazione Tecnologica in Toscana - ITT.
The Indica Project was articulated in 3 actions. The whole project was financed for 400 K€. The action 3 (forklift simulator) had a total cost of 187 K€.]]
Contact
- [[Percro Lab. - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
V.le R. Piaggio, 34 56025 Pontedera (Pi) Italy Email: perotti@sssup.it Web:http://www.indica.lucense.it/ Tel:+39 050 883287 Fax:+39 050 883333 (mailto:useremail@useremail)
Objectives
INDICA project relies the design and realization of a forklift motion-based driving simulator. The simulator can reply on the driver the physiological feelings produced by the vehicle dynamic (acceleration, breaking, steering, etc.); the driver can control the simulator by using primary commands (steering wheel, pedals, leverages) obtaining the same physic sensations that he would perceive if he was driving a real forklift. Typical paper mill scenarios are digitally reproduced; they are showed in the front and the rear side of the driver by the means of a visualization system. This permits to simulate both the forward and rear driving of the vehicle. The simulator acts in the VE by the means of both dynamic and physical model that allow to confehere the forklift a realistic behaviour and to manipulate the items. The graphic environment is driven by the data obtained from the physical model that periodically updates the status of the simulated environment.
Main Results
- Scientific results:
-1 Laurea Degree Thesis: Visualization Systems, projection systems, 1 year -1 Demonstrators actually used for development activities
- Material results:
-1 prototype used for the training courses design
- Applicative results
-Some training courses will be carried out in the next months, for people working in the paper mills
End Users
Evaluation Methodologies
Design Approach
Publications
Simulatore Di Carrello Elevatore Finalizzato All’addestramento Del Personale M.Bergamasco, M.Franceschini, S.Perotti, C.A.Avizzano, C.Bianchi
