26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-9.10.4

BIOMECHANICAL PILOT PROPERTIES IDENTIFICATION BY INVERSE KINEMATICS/INVERSE DYNAMICS MULTIBODY ANALYSIS

M. Mattaboni, A. Fumagalli, M. Jump*, P. Masarati, G. Quaranta
Politecnico di Milano, Italy; *Univ. of Liverpool, UK

Keywords: Rotorcraft-Pilot Coupling, Biodynamics, Multibody System Dynamics

Pilot-vehicle interaction represents a critical aspect of aircraft design, because it impacts performances, stability and safety. Measurements of human body impedance are used to reconstruct the motion of articulations, by weighted least-squares kinematic inversion. Inverse dynamics computes the forces at the articulations that reproduce the motion resulting from inverse kinematics.

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