Evaluation and Optimization of Vehicle Cabin Ergonomics Using Virtual Reality

The article discusses the idea of developing a cabin design complex using virtual reality technology to optimize production, improve ergonomics and comfort of the vehicle. It is planned to create a modifiable “on-the-fly” hardware-software complex for cabin conceptualization, consisting of a set of real cabin elements, a virtual reality helmet for rendering the environment, road and cabin design for the test subject, as well as a special operator program for controlling the driver's condition and changing the configuration of the cabin. The creation of an on-the-fly modifiable hardware and software system will reduce the cost of recreating the model of each new cabin. Various methods of taking information from the human body, such as ECG and EEG, eye movement, level of sleepiness, international standards, and others are proposed. Reviewing and selecting the most relevant metrics will allow for a more accurate determination of driver fatigue levels, and therefore the selection of better vehicle ergonomics.