키넥트를 이용한 인간공학 시뮬레이션 자동화에 대한 연구

The aim of ergonomics is at designing and investigating machine or equipment that people can meet with from the aspect of engineering with aligning all features of machines and environments in the matter of safety and easiness. That is, ergonomics helps in improving workers’ environment and safety, and enables to make decision of selecting tools and/or equipments for product production, and finally, plays an important role in improving products’ development costs and/or quality. As information technology advances, many enterprises, colleges and research laboratories are putting information technology to practical use for research of ergonomics. Among many of them, ergonomics simulation has been researched actively on workers’ ergonomic elements and workers’ environments. Also, with the advances of computer technology such as virtual reality and performance of computer graphics, now it is able to conduct an ergonomics simulation with the digital human. However, controlling posture and movement of digital human is a hard job that requires control of its detailed elements that construct the digital human with much efforts, time and expertise knowledge. Therefore, in this paper, automated ergonomics simulation system is developed for controlling digital human easily and with reduced time, costs and expertise knowledge, with Kinect.