Title :
Measurement Methods Research of Body Surface Angle Based on MATLAB
Author :
Chen, Guo-Qi ; Kong, Hai-yan ; Tan, Fei ; Huang, Lei ; Liu, Guo-lian
Author_Institution :
Nat. Eng. Lab. for Modern Silk, Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China
Abstract :
In order to make clothing, furniture, cars and other products design more in line with ergonomic principles, analysis of convex and concave surface features of the human body and its measurement methods is necessary. Body surface is constituted by a number of curved surfaces and convex and concave characteristic of these surfaces can be quantified with angle value. Convex and concave characteristic of front, side and back body can obtain angle expression by quantifying. In the paper, automatic extraction of body surface angle can be obtained by using MATLAB, error analysis of extracted data is done and the results show that the method is feasible which provides basis for the development of relevant body features measurement machines and relevant industries´ product design.
Keywords :
design engineering; measurement systems; production engineering computing; MATLAB; body surface angle; concave surface features; convex surface features; ergonomic principles; error analysis; human body; measurement methods research; product design; Clothing; Feature extraction; Hip; Laboratories; MATLAB; Neck; Textiles;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation and Systems Engineering (CASE), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0859-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCASE.2011.5997563