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• Main Author: KETUT GEDE SUDIARTHA (NIM 23206329), I
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/10642
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Mechanical platform is a media to represent movement responses of a game or simulator. A simulator is expected to have a consistency between movement responses and their related data or instruction given by simulator application program. This can not be achieved by software development or hardware development alone.<p> <br /> <br /> <br /> Ideally, a simulator platform should be easy to use and also easy to develop. The performance of the simulator platform is dependent on its elements, i.e. computer system, software interface, hardware interface, and electro mechanic system. This thesis presents software interface including driver software architecture design, data transfer technique and control algorithm of networked modular controller (NMC). The discussion of hardware interface includes system design, arranging system components available in markets into a hardware interface system useable in platform simulator design.<p> <br /> <br /> <br /> Hardware interface design implementation involves NMC module as motor controller and converter USB-COM as a connector between computer and NMC module. Software interface is broken down into three layers to facilitate design or its implementation in application program. The first layer is application layer, additional program accompanied with application program (game). The second and third layers are software drivers including data transfer, queue management, NMC module controlling and NMC module functions.<p> <br /> <br /> <br /> The result of interface test on electro-mechanic system miniatures shows that electro-mechanic movement position meets with input position data. Time needed to achieve desired position is not linear to input position value. This is due to unconsidered confines with NMC module and electro-mechanic system.