Proceed to Your Nearest Exit
The way people enter and exit cars may soon change. In conjunction with GM Holden and SomaDynamics, the Mawson Institute is developing a new CAD tool that will enable the design of cars to improve ingress and egress, and help members of our community who are mobility impaired.
In the first stage of this project, sophisticated motion capture is being used to study Australians of typical age, shape and gender getting in and out of motor vehicles. This information, once input into CAD simulation tools, will help designers alter car cabins to better accommodation the human form. This approach replaces the need to build costly seating bucks, which often involves several generations across a single model design. This project is being conducted under the auspices of the AutoCRC (Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology.)
Test subject with reflective body markers in a"mock up" of a car cabin. Note in the background cameras which capture the subject motion getting in and out of the car (ingress/egress). |