Automobile occupant posture prediction for use with human models

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Reed, Matthew P ^a   Manary, Miriam A ^a   Flannagan, Carol A C ^a   Schneider, Lawrence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FORECASTING; INVERSE KINEMATICS;

CAD MODELING; HUMAN MODEL; PACKAGE DIMENSIONS; POSTURE PREDICTION; PREDICTION MODEL; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; VEHICLE DESIGN;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 85072421367     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/1999-01-0966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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