Comparison of Methods for Predicting Automobile Driver Posture

Reed, Matthew P.; Manary, Miriam A.; Flannagan, Carol A. C.; Schneider, Lawrence W.

doi:10.4271/2000-01-2180

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“…There have been many past research and experiments conducted in driver's car posture (Na et al, 2005;Hirao et al, 2006;Hermanns et al, 2008;Falou et al, 2003;Park et al, 2000;Andreoni et al, 2002;Kyung and Nussbaum, 2008;Reed et al, 2000;Sun et al, 2006) but none was conducted for the Malaysian population. So, this study is aiming to publish comfortable and safe driving postures as preferred by Malaysian car drivers.…”

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Integration of Comfort into a Driver's Car Seat Design Using Image Analysis

Mohamad

Deros²,

Wahab³

et al. 2010

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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Problem statement:The purposes of this study are twofold: First, to recommend a range of angles for driving posture comfort from measurement of participants and second, to investigate the relationships between drivers' anthropometric characteristics, comfortable postural angles and seat adjustment. Approach: Forty five participants were involved in the study. Both anthropometric data and postural angles were measured and recorded by using the photographic technique and analyzed further using software. During the study, each participant was required to sit on the driver's seat in his or her preferred comfortable driving postures. Images of the participant's driving posture were taken after 5 min he or she has been in the driving position to allow him/her to adapt with the seat environment and fabrics. The seat adjustment data were measured manually after the seat is adjusted for comfort by the participant. Prior to that, 10 anthropometric data of each participant was measured and recorded. Data on comfortable driving postural angles, anthropometry and seat adjustment were analyzed statistically with Pearson correlation using the SPSS software. Results: From the study, a range of angles are proposed based on the participant's perception on comfort. The ranges of comfortable angles for Malaysian citizen proposed shows significant different between Caucasian and Korean populations. The relationships between the comfortable postural angles, anthropometric data and seat adjustment were analyzed and discussed with several outcome shows that taller participants preferred a driving posture with their arms outstretched in order to achieve comfort, participants with bigger body dimension have a tendency to sit farther back from the steering wheels and smaller participants prefer to sit closer to the steering wheels with a slightly greater trunk thigh angle. Conclusion: The result obtained and discussed in this study can be applied in the driver's car seat design and construction to ensure comfort and safety.

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Integration of Comfort into a Driver's Car Seat Design Using Image Analysis

Mohamad

Deros²,

Wahab³

et al. 2010

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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“…The driving task is very well described having remained fundamentally unchanged for decades. Current vehicle interiors in support of this task must have the seat, dashboard, displays and control inputs arranged around the driver, but also constrain the positioning [13]. This arrangement must be in consideration of the intended user population with accommodation traditionally provided by task-oriented models in the SAE Standards, which form the basis for many current processes [14].…”

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Importance of Human Anthropometry in the Interior Development of Autonomous Vehicles

Parida

Brock

Abanteriba

et al. 2018

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Currently autonomous driving is one of the dominant trends in the automotive industry. Cars that no longer need the driver's attention will be used in a completely new way than is currently the case. Fully autonomous driving would allow drivers to participate in the so called "non-driving secondary activities". In the future the car would be a place to work, a place to socialize, to relax, to meditate, spend quality time with the family, take a nap, and a whole lot more. The autonomous driving vehicle would be more of a living space, rather than just a mode of transportation.In order to facilitate these non-driving activities, the interior of the vehicle and the vehicle seats would be reconfigured and redesigned differently, as compared to the conventional vehicle interiors until now. Given the fact that the space available within a classical vehicle is limited, a lot of importance needs to be given to human anthropometry. In order to offer optimal space and comfort, the interior of the vehicle needs to be flexible and needs to be adaptable and customizable to the anthropometry of the occupant.The paper helps to understand the importance of human anthropometry in the design and development of the vehicle seating and seating configuration. Discussed in the paper are potential advantages, if human anthropometry is used as a parameter in the design and development of the interior of autonomous driving cars.

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“…A tool of the software Jack, the Enhanced SAE Packaging Guidelines, gives interactively the possibility to choice the car packaging for the market segment of potential users. The packaging setting enables to generate reproducible posture of the manikin through the Posture Prediction tool, based on research of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) [11, [26][27][28][29][30]. After sex, percentile, and posture of the virtual manikin are fixed, the joint angles are measured through the Comfort Assessment tool, based on the Porter and Gyi results too [24].…”

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Robust design of car packaging in virtual environment

Lanzotti

2007

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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This paper presents a statistical methodology to improve the car packaging setup in the first phase of a new mini-car design. An original procedure for comfort assessment using virtual manikins is formulated. The Robust Design approach enables to identify the optimal level for the main design factors of the new car packaging. The optimal solution is the most insensitive to anthropometric variability. The case study of a new mini-car packaging setup is exploited. The experimental results in virtual environment are obtained using the virtual manikin Jack by UGS. On the base of adequate comfort indexes, the proposed methodology allows defining a car packaging which is, on average, more comfortable than that obtainable as initial setting by applying the Enhanced SAE Packaging Guidelines and the Posture Prediction algorithms proposed by the UMTRI (UMI-USA)

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Comparison of Methods for Predicting Automobile Driver Posture

Cited by 15 publications

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Integration of Comfort into a Driver's Car Seat Design Using Image Analysis

Integration of Comfort into a Driver's Car Seat Design Using Image Analysis

Importance of Human Anthropometry in the Interior Development of Autonomous Vehicles

Robust design of car packaging in virtual environment

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