Study on construction of riding simulator with stereoscopic vision for two-wheeled vehicle

This paper describes the development and evaluation of a riding simulator (RS) for two-wheeled vehicle employing stereoscopic vision. The RS is built for analyzing rider control behavior from the viewpoints of human factors and control strategy. On the simulator development, there are two important factor we should be take into granted; visual sensation and riding feel. They are governed with visual and motion generation way. For improving visual sensation, we employed expanded view range and stereoscopic vision. Subjective test shows good effect to speed and distance recognition. Adding to these visual effect improvement, we tried to solve additional effect; oscillation oriented visual feedback from vehicle motion. Only accurate visual reproduction of these high frequency oscillation is not effective to increase reality on RS, since they are recognized only as a flicker to rider's vision. We built lateral motion logic by this methodology and verified by simulation.