抄録
In this paper a new flight simulator using a planar type of tripod parallel mechanism has been proposed and designed. The parallel mechanism has three legs translating on ground. A scale model of the tripod parallel mechanism with planar actuators is designed and fabricated. The software system for the flight simulator consists of the communication program, inverse kinematics algorithm, shared memory and the virtual motion simulator. The motion simulator shows virtually the motion of the tripod parallel mechanism in the system. The workspace of the tripod parallel mechanism has been calculated to evaluate the performance of the mechanism.
