CNH-Industrial – Connect a real steering wheel to the virtual world

Contact
Steve Campe – steve.campe@cnhind.com

Category
Mechanics

Context

Our virtual environment (e.g. a game) isn’t user friendly to steer the vehicle around in the field. Only a stupid slider on a windows application is not very handy. A real steering wheel that is connected to the virtual simulation environment will bring this system to a next level in user experience. The easier to use this, the more people will make use of it.

Objectives

Create a device based on a real steering wheel that can provide steering inputs to the virtual environment:

• A reel steer can rotate multiple times
• A CAN device can be used to control the edges of rotation
• Overruling active guidance control should happen
• CAN communication to be used to connect to simulators