Virtual Human Engineering Plugin

WHO WE ARE?

• 30 years experience in human engineering

• Human simulation software products: – Oscar (1981-1986),

– Anybody (1988-1990),

– Anthropos (1991-2001),

– Ergonaut (1996-2001),

– Ergomax (1999-2001),

– RAMSIS (1999-2001) at Techmat GmbH,

– IDO:Ergonomics (2002-2009),

– CharAT Ergonomics (2002-2011)

• Best of Byte Award `96

OUR MAIN CUSTOMERS:

• Aircraft industry – Airbus, Boeing

– Eurocopter, Eurofighter

• Track and Railway industry – Siemens, MAN, Caterpilar,

– John Deere, Daimler Trucks,

• Military industry – DASA, Kraus Maffei,

– Rheinmetall Landsysteme

• Car industry – Daimler

• Manufacturing industry – Bosh

• Ship industry – Meyer Werft

• Public sector – OAED-Greece

• Research institutes – Fraunhofer IPK

• Universities, Academies – Chemnitz, Dresden, München

– Köln, Hamburg, Magdeburg

– Karlsruhe, Luzern, Thessaloniki

– Halle, Yokohama

– BGA Mosbach, Esslingen

• Suppliers (many)

• Implemented in various hardware, software and network environments such as:

– Laptop, Desktop, Immersive Stereo VR and Massively Multiuser Online Virtual Environments

• Support of European, national and international ergonomic standards (ISO, EN, DIN)

• Collaborative workflow features

FOCUS ON:

Autodesk ® 3dsMAX ® 2010, 2011 (Laptop, Desktop)

Fraunhofer IAO Lightning ® (Immersive Stereo VR)

1. BASE TECHNOLOGY & PLUGIN

Ergonaut ®

IDO:Ergonomics ®

CharAT Ergonomics

ICIDO VDP ® (Desktop –

Immersive Stereo VR)

CharAT Ergonomics

Integrated databases, for example:

ISO/TR 7250-2 :2010

DIN EN ISO 3411:2007

Europamensch (gesicherte arbeitswiss. Erkenntnis Nr. 108)

BODYSPACE (Pheasant, 1988))

Internationaler anthropometrischer Datenatlas (Jürgens, BAuA, 1989) DIN 5566-1:2006

BSI PP 7317 ISBN 0580 15391 1987

Ross & Wilson UHP database 1976-1996

JAPAN Database Institute of Bioscience and Human-technology 1994

NASA STD 3000(2000) Interpretation of User defined database

Additional Statistical Variability: • Gender (Masculin, Feminin, Unisex Human Phantom)

• Age, Percentil , Acceleration

• Somatotype Proportion

Collision environment definition

• Realtime collision detection

Keyframing, animation

• Time configuration

• Keyframe Export-Import

• Render Setup

• Animation Recorder

Control - Monitor - Customize

Control functions

Control functions, continued

Biomechanics Simulation and Animation

Numerical and Interactive Joint Animation

Tracker Controler

Inverse Cinematics

Realtime Multi Target Inverse

Biomechanics

Static discomfort analysis

NASA-Standard 3000

joint movement

joint resistant

body chain torque on join

Human Body Type Data, -center of inertia

Reach Analysis

Collision

Static discomfort

Inertia and force-vectors

Bone Data

Visibility Analysis Data

Body Forces Analysis Data

Documentation

- Alphanumeric documentation

- Picture documentation, rendering

- Video documentation

Monitor & document functions, for example

• Customize Body structure – bone structure cinematic properties

– define attachments

– define physical parameters

• Customize kinematic chain of Body – different inverse cinematic definition

– augmented animation by assignments

– rotation, translation, scale limits

• Customize Body Shape – Build solid graphics representation

– Build and edit body morphing

– Rigging of body scan geometry

• Build a Human Body from component libraries

Customize Human Body

In cooperation with Dresden University of Technology, Chair of Labor Sciences, ergonomic tools are developed, emphasizing particularly the integration of normative ergonomic requirements.

Ergotyping® includes methods and digital tools to be used for the analysis, assessment and design of the ergonomic aspects of Digital Prototyping

Ergotyping ® tools Ergotyping ® is a registered trademark of Dresden University of Technology

“assessment of visibility”

“body force”

Undershooting of viewing distance (Limit to adjust focus) - max. accommodation, non-tiring accommodation (25, 40, 50 years old)

Exceeding the admissible vertical/horizontal viewing angle

Viewing angle for High/Medium/Low visual quality requirements

Relative visual acuity

Fusional vergence

Fields of view (sharp, color, monochromatic, optimal)

Visual display of icons, alphanumeric elements and analogue scales with intervals of one, two, or five

Viewing distance from the display area, optimal and approved parameters.

Assessment of Visibility

(normative) evaluation procedure, based on the maximum static action forces collected in the national force standards (DIN 33411-4 DIN 33411-5 )

Force atlas for assembly operations

(Montagespezifischer Kraftatlas)

– as-is-analysis

– planning analysis (general planning or detailed planning)

The health risk the specific force application carries is evaluated according to a three-zone model ("traffic light" scheme)

Evaluation methods:

Actual state analysis ISO 11228-2:2010

Planning analysis DIN EN 1005-2

Body forces evaluation

evaluation procedure: detailed planning Force atlas for assembly operations

evaluation procedure: general planning DIN 33411-4 DIN 33411-5

In the course of the Phiamo Electro Car Project Workflow we tested the working relationship of a package designer, a car bodywork design engineer and an ergonomist in a cloud computing environment.

Participants of the Cruzbike Cuervo Project were a bike producer company from the United States, a designer from Australia and a German ergonomist.

Online workflow, example

Thank you for your attention Dipl. Des. Dipl. Inf. László Ördögh

Dipl. Math.Inf. Klára Gehér

Virtual Human Engineering GmbH

laszlo.oerdoegh@googlemail.com

Dr. -Ing. Christiane Kamusella

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Schmauder

Institute of Material Handling and Industrial Engineering,

Professorship of Ergonomics Dresden University of Technology

Christiane.kamusella@tu-dresden.de

Dipl. Inf. Csaba Szeredy

NexStep Consulting Ltd.

csaba.szeredy@nexstep.hu

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