Details and Sample Images from the Off-Highway Truck Personal Simulator
 Instructional Design
The Instructional Design for Simlog's new Off-Highway Truck Personal Simulator features six "Simulation Modules" of increasing difficulty that bring people up to speed in a carefully planned and measured way. The first one, Controls Familiarization introduces the operator controls. The final one, Complete Haul Cycle, combines loading, hauling, and dumping. A simulated Wheel Loader is built right in, to help teach truck spotting interaction. You can even use the keyboard function keys and mouse controls during the simulation to change the point of view!
Simulation Results
The simulation results are automatically saved on your PC in the form of files, in Web page format. However, to make the record-keeping even easier, the same results can be saved in a single database, using Simlog's Simulation Manager. With this helper product, you can create individual "accounts" for your simulator users with distinct login names and passwords, and group them into "classes". (The same database can be used with all of our products.) In all cases, keeping track is easy!
Sample Images
Here now are two sample screen capture images (screenshots). In both cases, the view is from inside the simulated cabin.
Note that the name of the Simulation Module and the trial number (simulation exercise) are displayed in the header of the simulation window at the top left.
The first image is taken from an early simulation module where operators
learn to drive an Off-Highway Truck forward on level ground under no load
conditions. Several driving corridors are provided to teach the basics of
forward driving, braking, and steering.
The second image is taken from a later simulation module where a complete haul cycle is performed. The operator begins each exercise at a dumping area and must drive the Off-Highway Truck to a loading zone, where the truck is loaded by a wheel loader. The operator must then drive the fully loaded truck back to the same dumping area and dump the truck's load (to complete a round trip).
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