RESEARCH

RESEARCH AND HUMAN RESPONSE

DATA ACQUISITION FOR HUMAN SUBJECT & LABORATORY STUDIES

The Challenge:

• Measuring force and impact on the human body
• Safe and effective test methodologies for human subjects of all ages and sizes
• Validation of test data from ATDs or human analogs
• Size and mass constraints of test instrumentation
• Modular solutions, configurable for a variety of applications
• Varying test needs of a wide range of customers including universities, manufacturers, research institutes and Professor Splash, the Guinness World Recorder holder for the highest shallow water dive into a child’s inflatable pool
• To instrument Professor Splash, instrumentation needed to be waterproof, ultra-lightweight and high shock to withstand impacts from 11 meters into 30 cm of water at 53 km/h

The Solution:

• Standalone, ultra-small DTS data acquisition systems and sensors
• User configurable to support variable channel counts, features and sampling rates
• Ideal for both long-term monitoring and short duration tests
• For Professor Splash, the DAS was placed in a waterproof camera bag taped to his back to collect acceleration and strain gage data, power supplied via a small 9V battery
• Store in place reliability, data writes to non-volatile flash memory
• Angular rate and 6DOF sensors support HIC and BrIC for traumatic brain injury research
• Sensor ranges designed for human response corridors
• Easy set-up and intuitive software
• Industry experts in occupant safety and injury biomechanics