JSBSim
Users and Specific Projects
I’ve lost track of the various
users of JSBSim, but here are a couple of recent users:
ADSE BV
from the Netherlands (www.adse.nl) is working on two projects where JSBSim is
going to play a role:
1) ADSE has partnerships
with AMS Consult in Delft, and Bosch-Rexroth in Boxtel, The Netherlands, and
provides services related to the specification of optimal motion cues using
hexapod motion-base technology. In this way, ADSE improves existing simulators
and also helps design new devices. To enable us to perform this task, we make use
of customized software. We are currently coupling JSBSim to our motion-base
design software to be able to have certain flight dynamic parameters available
in the motion-base design loop.
2) We are also working on a
generic airplane simulator that could be purchased by the entertainment
industry or "financially independent" (i.e. wealthy) airplane
simulator fanatics. Flightgear/JSBSim should be a feature that can optionally
be used as the software platform.
Eric
Gullichsen, Software Engineer
With an M.S. degree in computer science from the
University of British Columbia in Canada, he is involved in the development of
rocket trajectory and guidance software for InterOrbital Systems’ sounding
rocket program. InterOrbital will operate a launch site in The Kingdom of
Tonga. You can view a picture of the island of Tongatapu here: http://www.vacations.tvb.gov.to/sts50.htm.
Research students and staff at the University
of Wales, United Kingdom
The FlightGear flight simulator was used, with the
LaRCSim and JSBSim flight models, for some work by research students (Phil
Summers, Andy Shaw) and staff (Dave Barnes) at the University of Wales in
Aberystwyth, UK. Their research deals with autonomous operation of aerobot
flight vehicles for meteorological sensing. More can be found in this article:
“Determination
of Planetary Meteorology from Aerobot Flight Sensors”
They have an informative web site, here:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/robots/Altairhtml/team.shtml