HUMAN FACTORS IN DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF HELMET SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW

摘要

Helmets are no longer used simply to protect the head from impact and penetration, but provide a platform for viewing devices, hearing protection, impact protection, and voice communications. In addition, they must acceptably integrate with personal equipment and cockpits. The designs of these helmet systems must address other issues including portability, flexibility, and expansion. Aside from integration and compatibility concerns, the helmet must accommodate the anthropometry of aircrew including head size and shape as well as variation in pupil and ear location. The criteria for integrating all of these elements includes restricted weight and combined center of gravity constraints. The development of new systems is clearly a multivariate problem. The evaluation of such systems requires orchestration of the separate evaluation methods to fully comprehend the performance results of these very complex systems.