Research and Design of Navigation Simulator Dome Laboratory

The paper introduces the dome laboratory designed for shipping navigator simulator. The dome laboratory, based on multimedia technology and computer network system technology, is composed by two parts: navigator simulator and planetarium simulator that connected between each other by network. The shipping navigator simulator will show corresponding seascape or port that the operator required, at the same time, the planetarium simulator will also show the astronomical phenomena of the period of the day according to the parameters that the operator entered. In order to make navigator simulator and single ball planetarium simulator simultaneous, we have done some special designs for driving system of the single ball planetarium simulator. In the laboratory, student could not only study both the navigation technology by shipping simulator and astronomical phenomena knowledge by planetarium simulator, but also syncretism navigation technology with astronomical phenomena knowledge much better. By using this laboratory, students will study more technology and improve their practice abilities as if they were on board ships at sea.