Cost Oriented Vr-simulation Environment for Computer Aided Control Design

In this paper the use of inexpensive standard hardware and software is proposed in place of high-cost commercial solutions to set up graphical VR environments and simulations with a human in the control loop. For this purpose a generic simulation environment for implementation of control simulation and evaluation experiments using VR with haptic feedback has been developed. As example setups a car simulator with a human in the control loop and an inverted pendulum as an experiment for student laboratories are presented.