In-Cockpit Dynamic Lighting System for Driving Simulators and its Impact on Quality of Driving Immersion

This paper describes a design and realization of the system Dynamic in-Cockpit Lighting System (DYICOLIS) which allows dynamical illumination projected on the driver and the cockpit of a driving simulator and its incorporation into the driving simulator systems. It describes the ways of how the visual databases for the system are designed and the ways how the reflected or transmitted light from the virtual scene affects the “shadow world”. The paper also presents the software and hardware realization of the system incorporated into our steady based driving simulator. Finally the paper proposes planned enhancements and improvements of DYICOLIS.