Title :
How effective is an armrest in mitigating biodynamic feedthrough?
Author :
Venrooij, Joost ; Mulder, Max ; van Paassen, Marinus M. ; Abbink, David A. ; van der Helm, Frans C. T. ; Mulder, Max ; Bulthoff, Heinrich H.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Mech. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
Abstract :
Biodynamic feedthrough (BDFT) refers to a phenomenon where vehicle accelerations feed through the human body, causing involuntary limb motions, which may cause involuntary control inputs. Many studies have been devoted to mitigating BDFT effects. In the current paper, the effectiveness of a simple, cheap and widely-used hardware component is studied: the armrest. An experiment was conducted in which the BDFT dynamics were measured with and without armrest for different levels of neuromuscular admittance (i.e., different settings of the limb dynamics). The results show that the effect of the armrest on BDFT dynamics varies, both with frequency and neuromuscular admittance.
Keywords :
acceleration control; biocontrol; neuromuscular stimulation; vehicles; BDFT dynamics; BDFT effect mitigation; armrest; biodynamic feedthrough phenomenon; frequency; hardware component; human body; involuntary control inputs; involuntary limb motions; limb dynamics; neuromuscular admittance; vehicle accelerations; Acceleration; Admittance; Force; Humans; Neuromuscular; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles; biodynamic feedthrough; biodynamic feedthrough mitigation; manual control; neuromuscular admittance;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1713-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1712-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2012.6378058
