The study provides a foundation for reliable simulation and comfort assessment of ingress and egress motion for vehicle design. Complex whole-body ingress motion can be reduced to planar motion of so-called “leading body parts”. This planar motion can be predicted from anthropometric, occupant-related and geometric, vehicle-related parameters. In the study, correlations between such parameters were established and converted into a functional, statistical-mathematical model. Motion of other (non-leading) body parts can be predicted based on dynamic equilibrium constraints under consideration of intertia forces and visualized using the digital human model RAMSIS. A separate validation study confirmed the plausibility of the modelling and simulation concept developed in the study.
«The study provides a foundation for reliable simulation and comfort assessment of ingress and egress motion for vehicle design. Complex whole-body ingress motion can be reduced to planar motion of so-called “leading body parts”. This planar motion can be predicted from anthropometric, occupant-related and geometric, vehicle-related parameters. In the study, correlations between such parameters were established and converted into a functional, statistical-mathematical model. Motion of other (non...
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