JSF CAESAR: CONSTRUCTION OF A 3-D ANTHROPOMETRIC SAMPLE FOR DESIGN OF JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER PILOT FLIGHT CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT

摘要

The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) anthropometric Cases 1 through 8 were not intended to represent a statistical description for the variation important in the design of personal clothing and equipment for the JSF pilot. Instead, the anthropometric measures associated with the JSF Cases define the minimum level of physical accommodation for men and women in the Joint Strike Fighter cockpit. These boundary cases were originally derived for the JPATS Program as a multivariate solution to describe variation in body size and proportion to address concerns with adequate vision, reach to controls, and obstruction clearance in the cockpit. The statistical process of constructing representative cases used in the design of clothing and gear require an entirely different multivariate approach. To address this disparity, a modern USAF anthropometric database was used to construct a new statistical sample that will serve as a resource for the designers of JSF pilot clothing and equipment. CAESAR, a 3-D whole body database, was sampled to produce 1374 subjects (651 men, 723 women) that represent a modern equivalent to the JPATS population, but using projected demographics of JSF flyers in the Joint Services in the year 2010. After analysis, and overlay of the JSF Cases, 646 men and 708 women were identified as falling within the reconstructed ellipses of accommodation defined by the original JSF Cases. The forty traditional measures and the associated 3-D scans of these individuals represent the statistical base from which JSF flight clothing and equipment can be designed and/or sized.