Projectiondesign supplies Force Technology

As part of a major technological upgrade earlier this year the centre’s management decided to equip its marine simulators with visual systems at the highest level of realism.

Located in the Danish city Lyngby, the division for Maritime Industry’s simulation centre trains ship-owners, operators, and maritime training organizations with a comprehensive array of full-mission simulators, wind tunnels, and deep and shallow water towing tanks.  

As part of the preparation for this project, Projectiondesign invited Peter K. Sørensen, head of department, training, ports and human factors at Force to its offices in Norway and showed him and his team an early prototype of the F82 series.  

He iwas attracted to its capabilities when working in simulated ‘night time’ environments.”

The end-user application required not just a new kind of projector but new kinds of lenses, as Espen Olsen, projectiondesign Regional Manager, Nordic and Baltics, explains:

“The largest full-mission simulator at the DMI is 18m in diameter and requires multiple projectors to throw a 360-degree image onto an angled, curved screen.  There are also three further simulators that use cylindrical screens of varying diameters.  

“All these required custom lenses to be manufactured. We then used our RealColor and ACOP technologies to ensure that all the projectors were properly colour-matched and aligned before they left our factory for delivery to the customer, and also worked on-site alongside Force Technology’s own integration team.”

The centrepiece of DMI’s simulation centre is a full-mission simulator offering 360-degree viewing from full-sized bridge consoles for control and monitoring.  

Two further full-mission simulators offer 210-degree viewing, while a 130-degree part-task simulator is configured in theatre style and is designed primarily for engineering studies.