Development and application of integrated human machine interaction simulation system

Based on virtual reality technology and related ergonomics principles, a virtual simulation environment was created allowing human to interact with virtual operation/simulation system in the computer, using multi-channel fused wide screen projection, human motion tracking and data glove gesture tracking, Vega, Creator, and other virtual reality hardware/software techniques. It can be used for dynamically and objectively measuring the interaction performance and can be further used for control panel design quality evaluation. It can be also used for operation training of various 2D control panels. Primary experimental result demonstrates the feasibility of the developed system.