筋骨格疲労・回復モデルと人間シミュレーションへの人間工学的応用
A new muscle fatigue and recovery model and its ergonomics application in human simulation
手作業における筋骨格系障害の評価に向けて、筋肉の疲労と回復をモデル化し、関節の疲労レベルを推定できる新手法を提案した論文。デジタルヒューマンシミュレーションによる応用事例も示している。
著者: Liang Ma, Damien Chablat, Fouad Bennis, Wei Zhang, François Guillaume
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Although automatic techniques have been employed in manufacturing industries to increase productivity and efficiency, there are still lots of manual handling jobs, especially for assembly and maintenance jobs. In these jobs, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the major health problems due to overload and cumulative physical fatigue. With combination of conventional posture analysis techniques, digital human modelling and simulation (DHM) techniques have been developed and commercialized to evaluate the potential physical exposures. However, those ergonomics analysis tools are mainly based on posture analysis techniques, and until now there is still no fatigue index available in the commercial software to evaluate the physical fatigue easily and quickly. In this paper, a new muscle fatigue and recovery model is proposed and extended to evaluate joint fatigue level in manual handling jobs. A special application case is described and analyzed by digital human simulation technique.
