creating a new ergonomic assessment tool

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Creating a Second (Work) Life

Please find some of my comments in these little notes


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Ergonomic Assessment needs

Simulation

Postures

Forces

Loads Frequencies

Times

Units/Time

G


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Professional solutions (1)

Siemens - Tecnomatix

3ds - Delmia

3ds Catia - Human Builder Human Solutions - RAMSIS

Santos Human Inc. - Santos


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Professional solutions (2)

are good in specific features (anthropometrics,

integration in CAx - environments,

biomechanics), but theres no all purpose

solution

are often too expensive for small and medium

sized companies (or universities)

can hardly be customized to specific needs

(conflicts with intellectual property)


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How to seat a Digital Human Model on

a motorcycle (Santos)

It would be much easier to do it like this:

Use object (the motorcycle knows, where and how you can sit on it for drivers or pillion passengers)


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Interaction should become as easy as

in games (i.e. Monkey Island)


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The researchers vision

As a researcher, I

want to focus on my studies and have specialrequirements, i.e.

create anthropometric exact virtual humans

assess the movement (captured with an easy to set-upmotion capturing system, i. e. MS Kinect)

easily create an intelligent simulation of a sequence of tasks

cant access the source code to change things to myneeds

havent enough money to convince the developers tochange things to my needs


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Whats needed

3D Environment

3D Digital Human

Animation

timing

human-like movement

Tracking of

postures forces/loads

Easy interaction with the user


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3D Environment

3D Digital Human

Animation

timing human-like

movement

Tracking of postures

forces/loads

Easy interactionwith the user

Whats available

Blender

http://www.blender.org


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Whats available

Makehuman 3D Environment3D Digital Human

Animation

timing human-like

movement


forces/loads


http://www.makehuman.org


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Whats available

Kinect 3D Environment 3D Digital Human

Animation

timing human-like

movement


forces/loads



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Whats available

Blender +

Makehuman +

Kinect =

a good beginning

3D Environment

3D Digital Human

Animation

timing human-like

movement


forces/loads



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Requirements

Programming skills

C++

Python

Qt Framework

Other

Motivation


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Do you want to participate?

Torsten Wagner (Research Associate)

[email protected]

Supervisor

Bachelor Thesis

Master Thesis

Internships

against monkey jobs
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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