Paper Info
Title
Assessing ergonomics and biomechanical risk in manual handling of loads through a wearable system
Abstract
Handling loads with a non-neutral posture induces overloading of the joint structures. Adopting incorrect postures during work can generate injuries. Ten healthy subjects were examined during lifting and repositioning different loads, while instrumented with a system of eight wearable Inertial Measurements Units. The tasks were performed in two conditions, safe and unsafe, when a load was lifted and then released. To detect differences between the two postures, kinematic parameters such as range of motion of joints and relative displacement between trunk and pelvis were estimated through a biomechanical model. Results demonstrated significant differences between the two postures for all kinematic parameters (p<;0.05), except for medio-lateral component of the trunk-pelvis displacement. Only for the hip joints, a dependency on the increase in weight of the loads was found. Our results demonstrate feasibility of a solution for automatically detect incorrect and risky postures in load handling of workers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/METROI4.2019.8792843
2019 II Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT (MetroInd4.0&IoT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Inertial Measurement Units,Musculoskeletal disorders,Posture Recognition,Ergonomics assessment
Range of motion,Kinematics,Simulation,Computer science,Wearable computer,Human factors and ergonomics,Biomechanics,Biomechanical model,Pelvis,Trunk
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-0430-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ilaria Conforti100.34
Ilaria Mileti2135.10
Zaccaria Del Prete3910.45
Eduardo Palermo401.01