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2 Cable winches of the cable robot
© Fraunhofer IPA / Philipp Miermeister
... and steel cables attached to winches control the movement of the simulator cabin. In contrast to conventional motion simulators, the use of ropes makes it possible to reduce the moving mass and scale the working space as required. The drive power is 348 kW - this allows the cabin to be accelerated at 1.5 times the acceleration due to gravity along freely programmable paths in a hall-sized workspace measuring 5 x 8 x 5 m³. The simulator is also ...
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