OLARGE : on kinematic schemes and regularization for automatic generation of human motion and ergonomic evaluation of workplaces

Abstract

The organization of the production leads very often to define repetitive sequences of movements for the human operators. This working type is at the origin of musculoskeletal disorders and of professional diseases in a certain number of cases. This paper presents work on simulation of the operator movements in its workplace and the software tool developed from it. The goal of these studies is to provide designers with a realistic prediction of human movements in order to evaluate tasks and workplaces from the ergonomic viewpoint. Main contribution is on automatic realistic motion generation in this specific context.