[54] SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING A FLYING VEHICLE
[75] Inventor: Masayuki Ikeuchi, Yokohama, Japan
[73] Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan
[21] Appl. No.: 75,512
[22] PCT Filed: Oct. 16,1992
[86] PCT No.: PCT/JP92/01346
§ 371 Date: Jun. 17,1993
§ 102(e) Date: Jun. 17,1993
[30] Foreign Application Priority Data
Oct. 18, 1991 [JP] Japan 3-271310
[51] Int. Cl.« G09B 9/08
[52] U.S. CI 434/30; 434/34;
434/43; 364/578
[58] Field of Search 434/30, 33-35,
434/38, 43, 45, 59, 62, 69, 72, 118, 219, 220, 365, 372; 364/578; 273/433, 434, 454, DIG. 28;
395/100, 118, 152, 155, 375, 927
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U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
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4,979,137 12/1990 Gerstenfeld et al 364/578
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FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
0096983 4/1991 Japan 434/72
Primary Examiner—Joe H. Cheng
Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Obion, Spivak, McClelland,
Maier & Neustadt
[57] ABSTRACT
The present system sets, as numeral information, the characteristic data of a space navigation vehicle and characteristic data of a circumstance situation and sets action setting condition information of the space navigation vehicle with the use of a nonprogramming language containing symbols, and computes, based on the characteristic data and action condition setting information, circumstance data in a circumstance generation unit which are actual action variables necessary for maneuver operation, and performs operation maneuver simulation in a simulator library on the basis of the circumstance data, whereby the characteristic data and action setting condition information can achieve substantially the same function as in the case of the system modification and it is possible to compute the circumstance data under various action setting conditions.
10 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets
