Flight simulator assisted by a robotic motion platform-sivor-design and applications

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� 2019 by German Aerospace Center (DLR). Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.The need for an optimized aircraft development cycle imposed by market constraints, associated with airliners demands for more cost-effective and safe operations, has become a challenge for aircraft OEM in face of new aircraft ever-growing complexity. Emergent behaviors during the development phase causing project schedule oscillations and delays in the adequate time to market, associated with accident statistics after entering into service phase (especially those associated with Loss of Control in Flight), force new approaches for the development of new aircraft. Based on this scenario, this manuscript describe the efforts to develop a flight simulation-engineering center based on a robotic motion platform. This promising configuration might contribute to overcome some of the previous problems due to augmented motion platform workspace. However, the limited robot payload capacity and the need for a commercial jet representative cockpit, generate critical design constraints and technological challenges to implement this configuration. This manuscript details the design strategy to build the flight simulator assisted by a robotic motion platform and also analyses possible applications.