Hand posture Prediction for Designing Position of Push-Button Switches on a Steering Wheel

Document Number: 2009-01-2285

Date Published: June 2009

Author(s):
Natsuki Miyata - National Institute of Adv Ind Sci & Tech
Masaaki Mochimaru - National Institute of Adv Ind Sci & Tech

Abstract:
This paper proposes a method using a limited number of measured postures to estimate the hand posture necessary to push a button on an automobile steering wheel by the thumb tip. The estimation is divided into two processes. First, the approximate posture to push a button is calculated by interpolation using measured reference postures. Then, the posture estimate is optimized so that the thumb tip reaches a given goal as nearly as possible. The accuracy of the proposed method is validated by comparing the estimated postures with measured ones that are not used as reference postures.

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