Resumen de Design of a physical and interactive real-time simulator based on a dynamic vpp as a support tool for sailing yacht design and operation
Performance assessment and training are two major components in technified high-level sports. Recently, high-performance sailing competitions have been forced to change with the use of the foiling technology and the training restrictions, more often included within competition rules. To answer those new situations, a new design and training tool has to be developed. Up until now, the performance assessment was made calculating the balance of forces and moments using a Velocity Prediction Program (VPP). This procedure was more than capable of dealing with conventional displacement sailboats but the dynamic nature of foiling boats compelled the development of a time-domain VPP for dynamic analysis towards a better performance. In order to improve the dynamic analysis capabilities of the VPP and to add the ability for it to be used for training, a new tool is proposed to fulfil those requirements: the simulator.
Throughout this work the concept of the simulator has been discussed identifying its fundamental components, namely:
• The time domain VPP.
• The motion Platform.
• The visualization system.
• The physical user interface for the simulator operation.
The different uses and applicability for this concept are explored in order to identify the potential benefits of such a tool in a high-performance environment. The different components are analysed, identifying specific problems in each area and proposing different solutions. All of this work allows proposing a modular framework of a simulator to be used in high-performance sailing boat design and training.
