Four ellipsoid-type dexterity analyses, which have been popular in the field of robotics, were applied to evaluate vehicle driver's steering arrangement. The human was modeled as three-dimensional rigid bodies. Th...
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Although biomechanics models can predict the stress on the musculoskeletal system, they cannot predict how the muscle load associated with exertion is perceived. The short-term goal of the present study was to model t...
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To work outside a space craft, humans must wear a protective suit. The required suit pressurization creates additional resistance for the wearer while performing work. How much does the suit effect work and fatigue? T...
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Fire safety engineering analyses have been mostly confined to describing how the physical environment causes the events, including human behavior, that comprise a fire incident. Despite the use of cognitive and inform...
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Fire safety engineering analyses have been mostly confined to describing how the physical environment causes the events, including human behavior, that comprise a fire incident. Despite the use of cognitive and information processing constructs to explain behaviors, the person remains a "black box" that generates behavioral responses when exposed to physical stimuli in the environment. These "physical systems representations" are well-suited to the prediction of some human behaviors, for example, travel times constrained by physical crowding. However, physical systems representations are ill-suited to the task of modeling cognitively-derived human behaviors, because the mediating effects of peoples' intentions result in behavioral responses that are poorly correlated with objective measures of environmental stimuli. Examples of such behavior are delays in initiating evacuations when people are exposed to alarm signals and other ambiguous signs of fire. Because research based on physical systems representations neglects to investigate how individuals use information in their pursuit of goals, the resulting models are often complicated, lack parsimony, and do not generalize well to new settings. This paper discusses how "intentional systems representations" can describe the cognitively derived responses of people in a more parsimonious manner, and can be used to design fire safety systems that capitalize on the adaptive abilities of people. (A fire safety system is viewed as being comprised of all relevant components, including people, that play significant roles in the defense against a fire threat.) In an intentional systems representation, events are driven by the goals that people pursue. Using the framework of physical versus intentional systems representations, various models of fire-related human behavior are reviewed and evaluated. Also discussed is recent research by Groner and Williamson (1998, Scenario-based goal decomposition: a method for implementing per
Head movements contribute to the acquisition of targets in visually guided tasks such as reaching and grasping. It has been found that head orientation is generally related to the spatial location of the visual target...
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This article addresses the design and development of a computer-based medical simulation system (Neuro Cath) for training and patient-specific planning of interventional neuroradiology procedures. Neuro Cath includes ...
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Three-dimensional anthropometric methods provide much more surface information about the human body than traditional anthropometry. Therefore,making use of this information correctly and fully has become a new researc...
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Three-dimensional anthropometric methods provide much more surface information about the human body than traditional anthropometry. Therefore,making use of this information correctly and fully has become a new research field in applied ergonomics. On the one hand,humandigitalmodeling is a method to represent a target population based on anthropometric data for design processes. On the other hand, current digitalmodeling is not an exact representation of a person because it somewhat overlooks many 3D human body surface characteristics which can be acquired by 3D anthropometric methods. To be able to take 3D characteristics of body form into consideration, we developed a concept of defining human body form in terms of mathematical description. The discovery of the laws of human body form in terms of mathematical description will definitely add more scientific theory to current digitalhumanmodeling. In addition,a semantic concept of body form based on mathematical terms should be developed into a new language that can be understood by designers. As a result,a bridge is built between 3D anthropometric data and industrial design. Finally, this concept will also give a new insight into the conceptualization of product design. This paper discusses the necessity and possibility of mathematical terms to describe human body form for industrial design not only in product design but also for workplace evaluation and design. Furthermore,some new ideas for further study are discussed.
The adoption of hardware description languages as a design specification formalism, in the electronic design automation industry, has reached acceptance during the last years. This effort has been mainly supported by ...
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The adoption of hardware description languages as a design specification formalism, in the electronic design automation industry, has reached acceptance during the last years. This effort has been mainly supported by the VHDL and Verilog standardization activities, which are now offering a common formalism among different tool vendors, as well as novel ideas like the SystemCC++ class library, which promises hardware modeling using C++ syntax and a higher level of specification abstraction. The broad range of modern description language spectrum, supports efficient language based synthesis processes, starting at even higher abstraction levels. This paper presents a language based design environment, which combines synthesis and formal verification tasks, using an advanced compiler generator and based on language transformations. This combination, presenting low complexity, offers more power to language based synthesis and design management and can be used to find errors and better understand issues of behavioral modeling.
We have already proposed a danger evaluation method of various kinds of design and control strategies for human-care robots. The impact force was chosen as evaluation value, and the danger-index was defined to make qu...
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We have already proposed a danger evaluation method of various kinds of design and control strategies for human-care robots. The impact force was chosen as evaluation value, and the danger-index was defined to make quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness for each safety strategy. In this paper, new type of 3-D robot simulator for danger evaluation is constructed on PC. This simulator simplifies to evaluate danger about both design and control of various kinds of human-care robots and to quantify effectiveness of various safety strategies.
In this paper, a new method of transistor chaining for 1-D automatic leaf cell synthesis is presented. The method allows synthesis of cells suitable for row-based layouts with no restrictions imposed on network topolo...
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In this paper, a new method of transistor chaining for 1-D automatic leaf cell synthesis is presented. The method allows synthesis of cells suitable for row-based layouts with no restrictions imposed on network topologies/transistor sizes. The novelty of the solution arises from transistor chaining with integrated dynamic transistor folding. We provide the theoretical analysis of transistor folding, then formulate the problem and solve it using the computational model made after that of Bar-Yehuda et al. (1989). The model serves us as a basis for the novel algorithm constructed using the dynamic programming technique. The preliminary experiments show that the method reaches good quality chainings and the dynamic folding leads to further elimination of the diffusion gaps comparing to the recent results of other researchers. This results in the reduction of the layout width as well as the improvement of its manufacturability and quality.
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