Using virtual human for an interactive customer-oriented constrained environment design

Liang Ma (1, 2) , Ruina Ma (1) , Damien Chablat (1) , Fouad Bennis (1)

1 IRCCyN - Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes
2 DIE - Dept. Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University

For industrial product design, it is very important to take into account assembly/disassembly and maintenance operations during the conceptual and prototype design stage. For these operations or other similar operations in a constrained environment, trajectory planning is always a critical and difficult issue for evaluating the design or for the users' convenience. In this paper, a customer-oriented approach is proposed to partially solve ergonomic issues encountered during the design stage of a constrained environment. A single objective optimization based method is taken from the literature to generate the trajectory in a constrained environment automatically. A motion capture based method assists to guide the trajectory planning interactively if a local minimum is encountered within the single objective optimization. At last, a multi-objective evaluation method is proposed to evaluate the operations generated by the algorithm

Mots clés: Virtual human; constrained environment design; optimization; motion capture; trajectory planning

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Liang Ma, Ruina Ma, Damien Chablat, Fouad Bennis. Using virtual human for an interactive customer-oriented constrained environment design. IDMME / Virtual Concept, Oct 2010, Bordeaux, France. pp.1-6. ⟨hal-00548799⟩