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Physical ergonomics evaluation of civil aircraft cockpit control devices has become increasingly important for aircraft engineers when designing pilot-centered cockpit. This paper puts forward the principles for physical ergonomics design of control devices, as well as a physical ergonomics evaluation method for cockpit control devices based on flight scenarios in virtual environment to demonstrate how digital human modeling software can be used effectively for such evaluation. Three digital pilot models are generated from anthropometric database, representative of the shortest, average and tallest Chinese pilot population, and interfaced with digital prototype of cockpit control devices in RAMSIS software for physical ergonomics design analysis of the control devices. The analysis mainly includes the control device’s appearance, range of movement, operating force, and the analysis results can be used to achieve design iteration of cockpit control devices.
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Zhu, X., Zhu, H., Jin, Z., Zhang, Y. (2021). Physical Ergonomics Design and Evaluation of Civil Aircraft Cockpit Control Devices. In: Goonetilleke, R.S., Xiong, S., Kalkis, H., Roja, Z., Karwowski, W., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80713-9_43
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