Car design must very care comfort and driving pleasure. Nonetheless, the design choices are tested with subjective evaluations. In the present research, an objective measurement equipment for driving comfort assessment is proposed. The muscles activity of the driver in different maneuvers is considered the gauge of her/his feeling with the car. The activity of trapezius muscles of both shoulders is monitored by electromyography (EMG), through electrodes applied to her/his skin. The driver posture is monitored with a robust device for head tracking, using two 9-axis orientation sensors, including gyroscope. Real driving experiments are performed both with a luxury SUV and a high-end car. As expected, the first resulted more comfortable. The proposed equipment proved to be effective in assessing the driving comfort for different seat designs and car layouts.


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    Title :

    Correlation of Driver Head Posture and Trapezius Muscle Activity as Comfort Assessment of Car Seat


    Additional title:

    Advs in Intelligent Syst., Computing


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration ; 2019 ; San Diego, CA, USA February 07, 2019 - February 10, 2019



    Publication date :

    2019-01-06


    Size :

    7 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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