Whether to design where the controls of a cockpit should be for minimum reach effort, or whether to decide where an operator should sit in a manufacturing assembly line, our mathematically-based optimization research can predict realistic positions or levers, controls, and buttons, can predict where a designer should locate various objects for best interactivity with humans.
Placement
Specifying the location of a person (operator) with respect to targets (machines, assembly
line, controls) is called placement. The questions is posed as: What is the best
position for this operator to be most effective while minimizing the potential for injury?
In both design problems above, we have created an optimization-based formulation for design, where words such "best", "minimum", and "maximum" are transferred into mathematical evaluations that yields the most appropriate locations of controls and operators.
