The Influence of Payload Mass and Inertia Properties on a Piloted Flight Simulator Hexapod Dynamic Performance

Abstract

In order to improve the dynamic performance of a piloted flight simulator hexapod, a study was carried out to quantify the effects of payload mass and inertia properties on hexapod dynamic performance. Based on the Lagrange-Euler formulation, a dynamics model of hexapod parallel mechanism including the payload mass characteristics was built, and then analyzed with the real hexapod through experiments. According to a large amount of experiment datum, the influence of payload mass and inertia properties on a piloted flight simulator hexapod dynamic performance was obtained, and these results are significant for the high speed and high acceleration control of the hexapod mechanism.