College of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

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Abstract—The layout design of aircraft cockpit is of great importance to the efficiency of the operation and the flight safety. In this paper, the reuse method of pilot motions for improving layout design of cockpit is proposed. The pilot motions are inertial tracked with man-in-the-loop mode and obtained on the basis of the operation procedures. The motions are represented by mapping the orientation of the pilot body segments to the virtual human model as motion cases. The case base is established, and the spatial position of the manipulation device is determined by case-based reasoning (CBR). The application instance presented indicates that the method proposed is effective and practical.

Index Terms—aircraft cockpit, layout design, reuse approach, pilot motions, manipulation device

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Cite: Yanjun Zhang and Youchao Sun, " Reuse of Pilot Motions for Improving Layout Design of Aircraft Cockpit," Journal of Computers vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 2269-2276, 2013.