Meet SantosTM
Santos is a digital human model that lives on our computers. He is a typical soldier that is capable of accomplishing tasks on his own, unaided. The ultimate goal is to enable Santos to evaluate systems, components, and products before they are built, thus reducing significant costs associated with making prototyoes. It is the dream of every industry...to test, analyse, and check for safety and human factors all components before they are made.
Santos is built from the ground up...unlike all other digital human mannequins, he is intelligent, he posseses accurate biomechanical and physiological characteristics that enable him to predict motions, to make decisions, and to execute tasks and procedures.
While Santos is performing a task, and because he is built a sound physics- and physiology-based foundations, we are able to monitor his progress, both visually as you see him performing a task (if he falls, he will let you know! if his L4 vertebral stress is higher than appropriate, he will also let you know)...but also while monitoring his vitals (yes, Santos has a continuous heart beat, a blood pressure, and a metabolism that keeps going). In short, we treat Santos as a human being, he lives with us, we teach him "stuff" and he continues to help us understand safety and human factors.
Santos has 103 Degrees of Freedom...his skin deforms, his muscles contract. He is intelligent enough (although learns everyday through an AI module). He executes tasks unaided, while telling you everything there is about the task, how he feels, whether he can reach something, whether he loses (or may lose) balance, whether a area is accessible, how much fatigued he is, whether he needs to sit down and have a sip of water! |
