This work is part of horse-riding simulator development project carried out in Laboratory of Intelligent Machines in LUT University.

The work is aimed to develop horse simulator head and neck mechanism that could realistically imitate horse motion. Following development steps are discussed in this work: horse head and neck motion analysis for walk, canter and trot gaits; kinematics synthesis; analysis of mechanism dynamics; optimization of mechanism power consumption; mechanical design including CAD modeling, cost-saving and manufacturing optimization. The outcome of the work is the CAD model of horse head and neck mechanism that can reproduce desired horse motion patterns.