A study on the safety assessment for driver-machine interfaces in the railway driving cab by the VE simulation verification

초록

In this paper, a study on ergonomics safety assessment for driver-machine interfaces of driving cabs will be presented. Considering train driver’s physical dimensions, skeleton model of train driver was developed and an ergonomic guideline for driver’s cab is drawn. Using the guideline, 8200-class locomotive using virtual engineering was evaluated and the need to conduct further examination on the more appropriate limit of the field of vision was found. Finally, a virtual engineering simulator for the driver-machine interface was developed to verify the driving cab’s design and operate the train with ergonomic assessment. Those results can be applied to ergonomic evaluation for the next MMIS design of locomotive cabs.