Real-time quantification of human physiological state in high temperature environments based on variable weight theory

Abstract

Accurate real-time evaluation of human physiological state is significant for safety guidance and early warning for people in high temperature environments. The constant weight method often makes the evaluation results deviating from reality. In this paper, the variable weight theory is adopted to solve above problem. Firstly, a human physiological state evaluation system is proposed. Secondly, the constant weight and variable weight methods are used to obtain the weights of the indexes. Thus, the comprehensive evaluation score is obtained to quantify the human physiological state. Finally, a case study is conducted to demonstrate and verify the proposed evaluation system. It indicates that, the variable weight of rectal temperature, skin temperature, systolic pressure and heart rate is 0.2∼0.77, 0.11∼0.61, 0.03∼0.31, 0.03∼0.31, respectively. And the weights of the skin temperature and the rectal temperature account for a relatively large proportion, ranging from 50% to 92%. The physiological parameters with small constant weight may account for a larger percentage in the evaluation when the physiological parameters reach an extremely harmful condition. This paper can provide more reasonable and scientific method in physiological state quantification for people in high temperature environments.

Keywords: AHP; Constant weight; High temperature; Physiological state; Real-time evaluation; Variable weight.