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Force-feedback on steering wheel of a vehicle

I am interested in identifying any systems that can provide force-feedback response on a steering wheel of a vehicle. This would ideally be a small electric motor that could be coupled to the shaft of a steering wheel and a controller that could be connected to a PC and so able to control the feedback response- electrical spring in reality. This would be for industrial applications rather that the typed you can get for PC games. It would be appreciated if anyone could provide any companies, web pages etc that could have products in this area. Thanks

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mike
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Atari Race Drivin games do exactly that as part of a physics accurate race car simulation game. Ditto with brake force inputs, etc.

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fpga_toys

Except they don't do centrifugal force. Once, some guy talked me into getting into one of those sit-down car race games, and when I got to the first turn, I almost fell out of the seat, because I was expecting some G's.

I got up and walked away from it, said, "Thenks anyway" to the guy, and went and got a beer and went back to darts. :-)

Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise

Thanks for the comments. While the games demonstrate what is achievable technically but when you want to connect that type of technology onto a real vehicle/control system and adjust the feedback for different situations, then it will require sourcing suitable system components and configuring s/w appropriatly.

Regards, Mike

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mike

The enclosed ones (so there's no horizon reference other than the screen, which shows whatever they want it to show) can give you 0.7G or so (cos(pi/4)) acceleration by tilting the whole cabin at 45°.

Beer and darts have always seemed like a bad combination to me.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Nico Coesel

At this one joint where I used to hang out at, there was a bunch of Irish guys who were here teaching soccer or something. One of these Irish guys quipped, "If ye can't shoot dahts when yer drunk, ye can't shoot dahts."

Not that there's anything wrong with tea-totaling, of course. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

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