Analysis of ergonomic and unergonomic human lifting behaviors by using Inertial Measurement Units

This paper presents an analysis of two distinct human lifting movements regarding acceleration and angular velocity. For the first movement, the ergonomic one, the test persons produced the lifting power by squatting down, bending at the hips and knees only. Whereas performing the unergonomic one th...

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Main Authors: Kuschan Jan, Schmidt Henning, Krüger Jörg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-03-01
Series:Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2017-0002