Extracting motion cues?

[flightline]

I have a motion platform. I am a complete beginner with slinging code. How do I go about extracting motion cues? I can code a little in old Visual Basic. Thank you for your help

 

[Hlynkacg]

we're going to need a bit more info to go on. besides, extracting cues from a piece of hardware is really something you should be talking to the developers of that hardware about.

PS
Welcome to the forum

 

[kamaz]

I'd use Orb::Connect to extract vehicle orientation and acceleration vectors and then feed these to the motion platform.

Except that from what I can see in the API you cannot get the acceleration vectors directly, so you'd have to get velocity vectors and calculate the time derivative yourself.

 

[flightline]

Thank you kamaz. That was what I was looking for. I know a motion simulator for a space craft is probably silly in space but might be cool for initial takeoff.

 

[kamaz]

That's not completely silly in space -- you will still get cues when you fire RCS motors or do burns.

You'll just have to pretend that you have a spacecraft with artificial gravity generators