Human Body Model Posture Calculation for Equipment Operability
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for evaluating equipment operability in three-dimensional virtual spaces struggle to maintain the optimum posture of a human body model when the physique changes, leading to difficulties in verifying equipment layout and determining the visibility and readability of target operation areas.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that manage physique information and target positions to automatically calculate and maintain the operating posture of a human body model in a three-dimensional virtual space, ensuring the visibility and readability of target operation areas, regardless of physique changes, by using a physique management unit, target management unit, posture calculation unit, simulation unit, and view determination unit.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the joint angle of a human body model is set independently for each physique to calculate operating posture, then the operating posture can be accurately calculated for each physique, but the device complexity increases and manual reset is required when physique changes
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically calculates and adjusts the joint angles of the human body model based on the selected physique. When a user changes the physique, the system self-adjusts the posture parameters without requiring manual intervention, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining calculation accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system stores different joint angle parameters for each physique type and automatically switches between parameter sets when the physique is changed. This allows the system to maintain accurate posture calculation for each physique while avoiding the complexity of manual parameter adjustment.
2Productivity
If the human body model physique is changed without resetting joint angles, then the evaluation process becomes faster, but the view range shifts and layout verification becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores the correct joint angle parameters for each physique type. When a physique is selected or changed, the system automatically retrieves and applies the corresponding pre-configured parameters, enabling fast switching without compromising the accuracy of layout verification.
3Measurement precision
If manual reset of joint angles is required when physique changes, then the system maintains accuracy, but the ease of operation decreases and time is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically adjusts joint angles when the physique is changed, eliminating the need for manual reset operations. This self-adjusting mechanism maintains calculation accuracy while significantly improving ease of operation and reducing the time required for physique changes.
4Measurement precision
If the target operation area is displayed with large size and high brightness to improve visibility, then the readability improves, but the equipment layout verification becomes less accurate due to interference with the view
Solution Approach 1:
The system displays the target operation area with enhanced properties (larger size, higher brightness) only when necessary for readability, rather than continuously. This partial enhancement approach ensures that the target area is readable when needed while minimizing interference with the overall equipment layout verification process.
Data Source
AI summary
The equipment operability evaluation apparatus calculates the operating posture of a human body model based on the physique information about a human body model in a physique management table, the operation information in an operation management table, and the target information in a target management table, arranges an equipment model and the human body model taking the calculated operating posture in a three-dimensional virtual space, displays a view image of a three-dimensional virtual space from the point of view of the human body model, and determines the visibility about the target operation area of the equipment model displayed on the view image and the readability of a character string.