인간공학적 세일링요트 설계를 위한 사용자 자세분석

Abstract

During a few decades, yachting has expanded from a minority sport for the rich into one of the major recreational activities practiced by millions all over the world. The interest of racing in all age groups has been increased including dinghy racing, sail racing, famous yacht championships such as America’s Cup, etc.. During this period, many new yacht designs have developed and the number of professional as well as amateur designers has increased gradually. However, they have excluded ergonomic factors in yacht design. At these days, most yacht are used for leisure, but a few yacht has been used for racing. Yacht for racing may trigger injuries or uncomfortable. Therefore, ergonomic ideas should be considered in the early design step. In this study, VR(virtual reality) system was employed to consider ergonomic factors in yacht design. Virtual human which mimics the real human was created in virtual environment based on DHM(digital human modeling). DHM has been widely used in the manufacturing systems to evaluate the caution level. At first, throughout this system, severe problems or obstructions which contain high workload had been analyzed. In order to tackle problems, ergonomic principles were applied to improve work conditions and environments.