Review of the Research on Car Seating Comfort

Effects of whole body vibration and backrest angle on perceived mental workload and performance

“…Therefore, chair designers have recommended an inclination of 110 degrees to 120 degrees for the backrest angle in order to create an optimum condition to mitigate risks concerning disc pressure and muscular activity (Grandjean, 1986[ 16 ]; Harrison et al, 2000[ 19 ]; Schmidt et al, 2014[ 43 ]). In addition to the physiological variables, perceptions of (dis)comfort for a seated subject could significantly affect human performance as well as perceived mental loads (Fan et al, 2020[ 13 ]). However, some evidence indicated that the comfort might be rated as highest in conditions that would not necessarily be considered biomechanically ideal (Carcone and Keir, 2007[ 3 ]).…”

Pattern Recognition and Characterization of Upper Limb Neuromuscular Dynamics during Driver-Vehicle Interactions

“…Driver neuromuscular studies have dominated the development of the collaborative steering system design of automated driving vehicles ( Hallé and Chaib-draa, 2005 ; Fuchs et al., 2007 ; Nguyen et al., 2017 ). The neuromuscular dynamics of an upper limb were widely applied to the development of shared steering systems, haptic take-over systems, steering assistance systems, and driving fatigue detection systems ( Pick and Cole, 2008 ; Nash and Cole, 2016 ; Fan et al., 2019 ). The lateral driver model that used the queuing network and driver neuromuscular dynamic model significantly improved the vehicle lateral control performance with high vehicle speed ( Bi et al., 2015 ).…”

Design of an Active Seat Suspension for a Passenger Vehicle

“…An increasing number of people spend significant amount of time sitting in a car which results in an increased occurrence of health problems which include lower back pain, neck pain, neuropathy, cardiovascular disease, digestion disorders, and even cancer (Fan et al (2020), Zhao and Wang (2019)). The leading overall cause for the health problems of the passengers is the occurrence of low excitation vibrations with frequencies between 0.5 to 10 Hz (Bai et al (2019), Heidarian et al (2019)) in all directions.…”