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Fig. 1: Scheme 
Fig. 3: Active seat and active belts system reference to Fig. 3, bladders 2 and 5 provide the pressure to the trunk of driver's body, 1 and 6 to the legs along the lateral direction, 3 and 4 to the back for positive longitudinal acceleration and, finally, 7 and 8 to the glutes along the vertical direction. The bladders are designed to have a distributed contact area and placed to act on the body similarly to what happens in reality. Proportional valves are used to have a progressive and continuous variation of pressure, which can be varied in the range [0-1.5] bar. 
Fig. 4: Spring function k(d y ). 
A Nonlinear MPC based Motion Cueing strategy for a high performance driving simulator with active seat
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March 2018

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Dynamic driving simulators are nowadays a common tool in the automotive industry. Issues related to automated driving topic are moving the target user of these tools from professional drivers to non-professional ones. Unfortunately, these latter typically suffer more the virtual environment, mainly due to the unavoidable lack of low frequency sustained accelerations. Active Seat (AS) with integrated Active Belts (AB) is a promising add-on to dynamic platform to make the virtual experience more realistic. Its usage in dynamic simulators requires ad-hoc strategies to coordinate pressure/tension of AS/AB with platform motion. In the framework of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) we propose a Multi-Sensory Cueing Algorithm (MSCA) that computes coordinated references for the platform and for the AS/AB systems. A dynamic model of a seated human body is used to relate forces and contact pressures acting on the driver. Simulative results are reported, showing the advantages in using the approach comparing a compact simulator and a giant one.

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... Additionally, to provide a more refined acceleration feedback to the driver and increase the realism of the virtual environment, an active seat can be used. The active seat is controlled by a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) based on multi-sensory cueing algorithm (MSCA) [69]. ...

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Research and Development on Noise, Vibration, and Harshness of Road Vehicles Using Driving Simulators—A Review
A Nonlinear MPC based Motion Cueing strategy for a high performance driving simulator with active seat