Static Posture Catalog

Licensing
  A Static Posture Catalog is only available with a product license.
The contents of the static posture catalog enhance productivity of creating relevant human postures for different situations, relying on those that often occur in any industrial scenario.
  With the Static Posture Catalog, users have the possibility to posture the manikin quickly with just a few mouse clicks. Several variations of predefined posture are available.
  For some postures, angular limitations have been changed to obtain an optimal and realistic posture. For example, in order for the manikin to kneel with the buttock against the heels, angular limitations have been edited. In that case, postures were saved with the associated angular limitations in the catalog.
  Most of the postures have been created for a specific percentile (5th, 50th and 95th for man and woman) to avoid self or object collision.
In the Static Posture Catalog, you are able to import a set of 127 postures within the Human Builder environment.

See Opening the Standard Human Catalog to get to the HumanCatalog path.

  1. Select the required HumanCatalog. For this scenario, select the Postures directory.

  2. In the Postures directory, select the Static_Posture.catalog, and Open.

  3. Select the required pose, and select the Manikin from the PPR tree. In this scenario, we selected the Ladders,...leg from the 50 Percentile_Man.

     

  4. The whole manikin will turn orange, as we want all of the segments loaded onto the manikin.

     

  5. Click on Apply, and the selected pose is applied.

  6. Here are some examples of the Static Postures.



     

    The Types of Postures provided deal with:

    • Climbing
    • Driving
    • Crawling
    • Hand counting
    • Sitting
    • Standing

     

References

 
Relax sitting posture:
  • Larry E. Stewart, Technical Report No.85-12-01, 1985 Anthropometric survey of Canadian forces aircrew, Defense and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine,
    Human Elements Incorporated, Ontario, December 1985, p.80 and p.84.
  • K.H.E. Kromer, H.J. Kromer-Elbert, Engineering Physiology: Bases of Human Factors/Ergonomics (3rd edition), New York, 1997.
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Automotive driving posture:

  • Laurent Chabert, Slah Ghannouchi, Claude Cavallero, Geometrical Characterisation of a seated occupant, Paper number 98-S9-P-19, France, p.2073 - 2079.

Kneeling posture:

  • Handbook for human engineering design guidelines, Department of Defense, MIL-HDBK- 759C, 31 July 1995, p.137, 138.