Virtual realization of sky-hook cabin to suppress fatigue of operators in pleasure boats

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H02984
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Nagaoka National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Toyama Shigehiro 長岡工業高等専門学校, 電子制御工学科, 教授 (60342507)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 池田 富士雄 長岡工業高等専門学校, 機械工学科, 准教授 (30353337) ; 工藤 慈 長岡工業高等専門学校, 機械工学科, 助教 (60756584) ; 上村 健二 長岡工業高等専門学校, 電子制御工学科, 准教授 (80708090) ; 宮崎 敏昌 長岡技術科学大学, 工学研究科, 准教授 (90321413)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SETA Hiroaki 鳥羽商船高等専門学校, 商船学科, 准教授 (20311037)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 安全工学 / 小型船舶 / 事故 / 疲労 / ヒューマンエラー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Sky-hook cabin system with high-speed and highly precise motor control can reduce hull vibration transmission to ship operators and their fatigue. In order to recovery original operability in sky-hook cabin system, some useful hull information lost by vibration transmission reduction, such as the lateral acceleration, is artificially reproduced by a galvanic vestibular stimulation, a visual stimulation and a somatosensory sensation. Such concept could lead marine accidents caused by human error to decreasing. A simplified ship simulator with a stewart platform was developed. And each basic characteristics for the galvanic vestibular stimulation, the visual stimulation and the somatosensory sensation were evaluated.

Free Research Field

制御工学、メカトロニクス