Characterisation of motorcyclist's upper body motion during braking manoeuvre

Symeonidis, Ioannis; Kavadarli, Gueven; Fraga, Filipe; van Rooij, Lex; Schuller, Erich; Peldschus, Steffen

Affiliations

¹Institute of Legal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilan University, Munich, Germany

²Netherlands’ Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO Automotive, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Abstract and keywords

Motorcycle braking experiments with volunteers were performed in lab, to study the body posture and reactions of the motorcyclists during braking with the aim of providing input for human modelling. Human motion capture methods were employed for the kinematics and the recorded data was further analyzed with clustering methods for time-series. The validity of the clustering results was also studied.

Eight volunteers in two different setups (aware-unaware) were analyzed. Two kinematics behaviours were identified.

Keywords: volunteers; sled tests; neck; kinematics; validation

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2018	Symeonidis I, Margaritis D, Panou M, Bekiaris E, Peldschus S. Experimental study of out‐of‐position motorcycle rider in crashes without loss of control before the accident. In: Proceedings of the 2018 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury. September 12-14, 2018; Athens, Greece.482-483.