We are french students in engineering school and we are building a big racing simulator (2DOF). It won't be a moving seat, but a platform with a real "half-car" on it which weighs 400kg !
Our problem is that now we have a plan for the mechanism (2 actuators), we don't really know what we need for the electronic control. We did lots of research, we understood that we need two cards to control our actuators because one gives the orders and the other gives the power. But what can we choose ? Here is what we found after doing some researches :
- Pololu : seems to be easy to use and "all-in-one" (power+command), and natively compatible with XSim. But it seems not enough for our system
- Arduino + "something to give power" : Arduino seems good, maybe less "plug and play" that Polulu but more customizable. So maybe it's better for our needs. But we don't know what card we need to give enough power.
- Labjack U3 : maybe the worse solution because it doesn't seem natively compatible with XSim (and we don't have the time/the knowledges to develop a driver) but it can do PWM on 12 bits so it got a higher resolution than Arduino I guess ?
All these results are related to little, individual simulators but we need something that fits our big simulator because it will need to move a big mass (our actuators will need approx. 70A, we are trying to reduce that). We saw the hardware compatibility list on XSim website but it doesn't seem up to date, do you have infomations about that ? We don't have lots of time so we prefer solutions fully compatible with XSim to avoid writing drivers or things like that. As you can see, we are new in the sim world so we still don't really know what we are talking about.
What do you think about that ?
Thank you in advance
PJM
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