Modular Motion Platform for Ground-Level Vehicle Loading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing motion control platforms are bulky, require separate setups for different scenarios, have limited movement capabilities, and pose challenges in loading and accessing vehicles due to height restrictions, limiting their adaptability and efficiency in virtual production environments.
Innovation Solution
A reusable and adaptable motion control platform designed to increase gross moving load, enhance movement types, lower minimum height, and integrate with camera cranes and virtual production stages, featuring a rotating upper platform, suspension control platforms, and hydraulic systems for enhanced vehicle loading and synchronization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional six degrees of freedom motion platform is used to simulate motions in six independent directions, then realistic simulation of various motion scenarios is achieved, but the platform becomes bulky and requires cranes and forklifts for installation, making it hard to access and load vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The motion platform is divided into multiple independent motion modules, each responsible for specific degrees of freedom. This segmentation allows the platform to maintain six-DOF simulation capability while reducing the size and weight of individual components, enabling easier loading without requiring cranes and forklifts
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a vertical dimension of motion control by lowering the platform to ground level, transforming the traditional elevated installation approach. This dimensional change in installation height enables direct vehicle loading from the ground while maintaining full six-DOF motion simulation capability through the modular architecture
2Reliability
If a traditional motion platform is designed with fixed configuration for certain vehicle types, then specific simulation scenarios are achieved, but a different platform needs to be set up for each different scenario, reducing efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The motion platform employs dynamically reconfigurable control systems that can adapt its motion parameters and simulation characteristics in real-time. This allows the same physical platform to accurately simulate different vehicle dynamics and motion scenarios by adjusting control algorithms and motion profiles, eliminating the need for separate fixed-configuration platforms
Solution Approach 2:
The platform is designed with universal interfaces and standardized mounting systems that can accommodate various vehicle types and configurations. The multi-functional control system can be programmed to simulate different vehicle dynamics, making a single platform capable of handling multiple simulation scenarios that previously required separate dedicated platforms
3Ease of manufacture
If the platform is positioned at high installation height to enable vehicle mounting, then vehicle loading is facilitated, but working at these heights is hard for setup crews and actors to access the vehicle
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of elevating the platform to facilitate vehicle mounting, the patent inverts the approach by lowering the platform to ground level. This inversion maintains ease of vehicle mounting through direct ground-level access while simultaneously improving crew and actor accessibility, eliminating the need to work at hazardous heights
4Adaptability or versatility
If the platform provides six degrees of freedom motion control, then comprehensive motion simulation is achieved, but movement in certain directions may be limited due to vehicle position constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The six degrees of freedom are distributed across multiple independent motion modules rather than a single complex mechanism. This segmentation allows each module to operate within optimized ranges while collectively providing full six-DOF capability, eliminating directional limitations without increasing overall platform complexity
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The platform enables safer and faster vehicle loading, supports a wider range of vehicle configurations, and enhances synchronization with virtual production systems, improving operational efficiency and adaptability.
Implementation Method 1
a motion control platform integrated and controlled to enable synchronization with camera cranes, the driving simulators and virtual production stages
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AI summary
A virtual production apparatus, including: a motion control platform used for virtual production, the motion control platform integrated and controlled to enable synchronization with camera cranes, the driving simulators and virtual production stages, wherein the motion control platform is designed to increase gross moving load, increase available movement types, and lower a minimum height to enable loading of vehicles or objects onto the platform.