Chery Motors, one of China's leading automakers, is known for its commitment to innovation and user-centric design. As the company continues to expand its global presence, the Chery team is constantly looking for new ways to accelerate the automotive development process while maintaining high standards of comfort, safety and ergonomics.
Traditional ergonomic verification methods, which rely on physical seat gantry models and later prototype tests, have proven to be time-consuming and costly, often delaying decisions in the early stages of vehicle design. To overcome these challenges, the R&D team at Chery AG's Human-Machine VR Research Laboratory adopted an advanced virtual reality ergonomic verification system powered by TechViz and A.R.T. motion capture technology. The system enables immersive, real-time evaluation and optimization of vehicle interiors based on CAD data.
I. Revolutionizing ergonomic design through immersive virtual reality
Chery has integrated TechViz into its ergonomic vehicle design process, revolutionizing the way human-computer interaction is verified. By combining TechViz with A.R.T. motion capture technology, engineers and designers are able to visualize and interact with full-scale 3D vehicle models from the earliest stages of development in an immersive virtual environment. This approach enables fast, accurate ergonomic assessment, significantly reduces the need for expensive physical prototypes, and speeds up the design process.
II. Collaborative real-time ergonomic review based on TechViz
TechViz also supports multi-user collaborative review, allowing multiple team members to simultaneously evaluate different areas of the vehicle and observe changes in real time. The system facilitates a comprehensive assessment of field of view, reach, seat comfort and storage convenience, providing actionable insights to help optimize occupant safety and comfort. By simulating real-world scenarios including urban, mountain and suburban environments, TechViz ensures highly realistic and data-driven design decisions.
III. Unparalleled accuracy and efficiency in virtual ergonomic verification
By integrating A.R.T. technology and a flexible test bench, TechViz achieves precise alignment between the virtual model and the physical configuration with an error of less than 1 mm. This unparalleled precision makes the validation of interior components highly reliable, going beyond traditional methods such as benchtop evaluation. Overall, TechViz enables fast, immersive and collaborative ergonomic validation, reducing development time and costs while improving design quality, making it a key tool for next-generation automotive R&D.
IV.Summary
By introducing the virtual reality ergonomic verification system built by TechViz and A.R.T. motion capture technology, Chery has completely changed the verification mode of the traditional entity-dependent model. The system intervenes from the initial stage of R&D. With the advantages of immersive interaction, multi-user collaborative review and millimeter-level accurate matching, it achieves efficient, accurate and low-cost ergonomic evaluation, which not only greatly shortens the vehicle R&D cycle and reduces R&D costs, but also significantly improves the safety and comfort design level of vehicle interiors, providing a reference practice for the digital transformation of ergonomic design in the automotive industry.