Comparison of methods for predicting automobile driver posture

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2000, 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

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COST FUNCTIONS; FORECASTING; INVERSE KINEMATICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; STREAM FLOW;

COMPARISON OF METHODS; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DRIVING POSTURE; KINEMATIC OPTIMIZATION; POSTURE PREDICTION; RECENT RESEARCHES; REGRESSION FUNCTION; VEHICLE CONFIGURATION;

AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 85072457292     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2000-01-2180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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