关键词: 中国驾驶员；舒适乘坐位置模型；驾驶舒适性

Abstract: At present, most domestic automakers adopt the society of automotive engineers (SAE) comfort model for designing human seating positions, which is derived from anthropometric data of American populations and tends to cause comfort complaints when applied in China. To investigate the comfortable seating positions of Chinese vehicle drivers, this study establishes a comfort seating position model based on anthropometric data of Chinese drivers. A total of 12 test vehicles are selected, from which the comfortable driving postures are collected, the positional relationship between the driver's H-point and foot pedal point is extracted, and a fitted model of comfortable seating position is obtained. Comparative analysis with the SAE model is conducted to demonstrate the differences in anthropometric dimensions. The effectiveness of the proposed comfort model is further verified via a human-machine bench test. This research provides certain guiding significance for the design of driving comfort tailored to Chinese drivers.

Key words: Chinese drivers; comfortable seating position model; driving comfort