Application of Manikin to the light truck cab design in the Southwest Area of China

Author

Hong, Run-zhang ; Hou, Kai-hu ; Chen, Li-hua ; Hong, Dang-zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Kunming Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kunming, China

Volume

Part 1

fYear

2011

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

682

Lastpage

686

Abstract

Little attention is given to the regional human diversities and data verification in the light truck cab design and verification applying Manikin. In this paper the relevant theories and methods of Ergonomics and somatic data in GB10000-88 were adopted, combined with the light truck of an automobile company in the Southwest Area of China. First, the somatic data in the southwest area were studied taking the influence of wearing shoes into account. Then, southwest three-dimensional manikin in the UG / KF platform using somatic data was established, and thus put the manikin into a light truck cab for cab design and verification. Besides, the model of regional manikin is provided considering that the manikin could be adapted to the regional workspace design.

Keywords

automobile industry; design engineering; ergonomics; China; GB10000-88; KF platform; UG platform; automobile company; data verification; ergonomics; light truck cab design; light truck cab verification; manikin; regional human diversity; regional workspace design; somatic data; Automobiles; Ergonomics; Humans; Joints; Layout; Software; Ergonomics; Manikin; UG; cab design; light truck;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IE&EM), 2011 IEEE 18Th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changchun

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-446-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEEM.2011.6035248

Filename

6035248