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Granted Patent B2
US 11,602,657 · App. 17/325,459 · Granted Mar 14, 2023

Realistic fire-fighting training simulator

Inventors: Su Ran Park (Daejeon, KR); Ung Yeon Yang (Daejeon, KR); Hyung Ki Son (Daejeon, KR); Hae Dong Kim (Daejeon, KR); Hong Kee Kim (Daejeon, KR); Kyung Ho Jang (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
A62C99/0081G09B5/06G09B9/00G09B19/003
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Patent No.
US 11,602,657
App. No.
17/325,459
Granted
Mar 14, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fire-fighting virtual reality simulator allows the trainee to move in a virtual space in various complex virtual fire disaster situations and perform a suppression of a virtual fire and a confrontation training. An experience interactive simulator for providing a trainee with a floor movement that may occur in a fire disaster situation so that the trainee wearing HMD in a virtual fire-fighting training has the same sense of feeling as that in an actual fire-fighting training is provided. For the realistic content experience, a physical floor movement, such as tilting, falling, and shaking of the floor is reproduced using a base motion, thereby providing a floor movement that enables a sense of feeling similar to a fire disaster situation.

Claims (34)

1. A virtual reality firefighting training simulator comprising:

a base motion unit configured to move a base, on which a trainee stands, to provide the trainee with a realistic situation;

a trainee movement recognition unit configured to acquire movement/state data related to a movement and a posture of the trainee according to an operation of the base motion unit to recognize viewpoint direction information, movement information, and posture information of the trainee;

a content operation/motion control unit configured to operate a firefighting training content application program and control the base motion unit; and

a safety support unit corresponding to a low posture of the trainee and including a safety wire whose length is flexible to be extended to provide the trainee with freedom in movement, wherein the safety support unit further comprises a limit switch configured to detect cutting of the safety line.

2. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 1 , further comprising:

a situation monitoring unit configured to visualize at least one of a virtual training image of a first-person view of the trainee and a training situation of the trainee in a virtual reality space,

wherein the content operation/motion control unit is configured to:

control the base motion unit on the basis of the firefighting training content application program to provide the trainee with a motion of the base;

receive the movement/state data of the trainee from the trainee movement recognition unit; and

analyze and process the received movement/state data of the trainee to perform an image visualization event inside the firefighting training content application program.

3. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 1 , wherein the base motion unit comprises a vertical movement shaft that raises, lowers, and tilts the base by a four-axis motion device controlled by the content operation/motion control unit on the basis of the firefighting training content application program.

4. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 1 , wherein the trainee movement recognition unit comprises at least one of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor, a vibration sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, and a position tracking sensor to acquire the movement/state data of the trainee.

5. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 1 , wherein the trainee movement recognition unit comprises:

a sensor configured to acquire a point in time of the movement of the trainee; and

a sensor configured to track a posture height of the trainee.

6. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 1 , wherein the content operation/motion control unit is configured to:

control the base motion unit on the basis of the firefighting training content application program to provide the trainee with a motion of the base;

receive the movement/state data of the trainee from the trainee movement recognition unit; and

analyze and process the received movement/state data of the trainee to perform a floor motion event inside the firefighting training content application program.

7. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 1 , wherein the safety support unit further comprises a motor configured to adjust the length of the safety wire according to a height of the trainee.

8. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 1 , wherein the safety support unit further comprises a weight reducer connected to the safety wire to support a weight of the trainee to support the trainee in free motion and ensure safety of the trainee.

9. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 1 , wherein the safety wire of the safety support unit is coupled to a wire guard for length extension.

10. A virtual reality firefighting training simulator comprising:

a firefighting training content application program;

a device configured to move a base, on which a trainee stands, on the basis of the fire-fighting training content application program to provide a trainee with a realistic situation;

a device configured to acquire movement/state data related to a movement and a state of the trainee according to the motion of the base to recognize viewpoint direction information, movement information, and posture information of the trainee; and

a content operation/motion control unit including a device configured to analyze and process the acquired movement/state data of the trainee to perform a floor motion event inside the firefighting training content application program to execute a motion of the base.

11. The virtual reality firefighting training simulator of claim 10 , wherein the content operation/motion control unit further comprises a device configured to analyze and process the acquired movement/state data of the trainee to perform an image visualization event inside the firefighting training content application program to visualize at least one of a virtual training image of a first-person view of the trainee and a training situation of the trainee in a virtual reality space.

12. A virtual reality firefighting training simulation method comprising:

moving a base, on which a trainee stands, on the basis of a firefighting training content application program to provide the trainee with a realistic situation;

acquiring movement/state data related to a movement and a state of the trainee according to the motion of the base to recognize viewpoint direction information, movement information, and posture information of the trainee; and

analyzing and processing the acquired movement/state data of the trainee to perform a floor motion event inside the firefighting training content application program to execute a motion of the base.

13. The virtual reality firefighting training simulation method of claim 12 , further comprising analyzing and processing the acquired movement/state data of the trainee to perform an image visualization event inside the firefighting training content application program to visualize at least one of a virtual training image of a first-person view of the trainee and a training situation of the trainee in a virtual reality space.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 20, 2021
From: PARK, SU RAN; YANG, UNG YEON; SON, HYUNG KI; KIM, HAE DONG; KIM, HONG KEE; JANG, KYUNG HO
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 056300/0065 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0066086 · Jun 1, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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