Tasks - Task Transition Catalog

Licensing
  Human Task Catalogs are only available with a product license.
There are two catalogs related to the Human Task Catalog, but they are to be used together. First, the initial posture catalog and then the task transition catalog. The purpose of using the Human Task Catalog is to greatly reduce the work needed to create a simulation and to have the manikin moving in a more realistic way. Thus the user has the possibility to reuse tasks simulations from a catalog where a manikin is moving from a generic posture to another. For example: from a standing posture to a crawling posture.

Before starting the simulation, it is important to load the initial posture according to the task transition from this catalog to avoid a bad orientation of the manikin and because some simulations have modification in the angular limitations.

See Opening the Standard Human Catalog to get to the HumanCatalog path.

  1. Load the initial posture of the according task transition from the initial posture catalog.  See Loading and Reusing Manikin Attributes from a Catalog File.

  2. Make sure the initial posture is synchronized in 3D.

  3. Then load the task transition. See Catalog Management.

  4. In the Tools > Options > Human Task Simulation > Cut Copy Paste tab, verify that the Place area shows Last Activity as selected and the At area shows Current Position as selected.
JPATS Anthropometry Standard
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Boundary Manikins(cockpit, habitacle)
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Internal Safework method (min and max variable)
Child Anthropometry
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Elderly Anthropometry
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Pregnant
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