L Donisi, G Cesarelli, A Coccia, M Panigazzi… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many activities may elicit a biomechanical overload. Among these, lifting loads can cause work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Aspiring to improve risk prevention, the National …
Many work activities can imply a biomechanical overload. Among these activities, lifting loads may determine work-related musculoskeletal disorders. In order to limit injuries, the …
Wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) are used increasingly to estimate biomechanical exposures in lifting-lowering tasks. The objective of the study was to develop …
G Zhou, ML Lu, D Yu - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Overexertion in lifting tasks is one of the leading causes of occupational injuries. The load weight is the key information required to evaluate the risk of a lifting task. However, weight …
S Taori, S Lim - Applied Ergonomics, 2024 - Elsevier
We used an armband with embedded surface electromyography (sEMG) electrodes, together with machine-learning (ML) models, to automatically detect lifting-lowering activities …
With the widespread adoption of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing concepts across industries, sensor development, system integration, and data analysis have become …
S Lim, C D'Souza - Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational …, 2021 - Springer
This study examined the goodness-of-fit of using a sigmoid function to characterize time- series angular displacement trajectories during two-handed anterior lifting. Twenty-six …
Understanding how workers move in professions that require unnatural posture can help find solutions to work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) that are common in such …
The high prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in occupational settings necessitates the development of economic, accurate, and convenient methods for …