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Biomechanical Analysis: Adapting to Users’ Physiological Preconditions and Demands

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Developing Support Technologies

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 23))

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Exoskeletal systems for the workplace are mostly designed to reduce strain and to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. In order to design these systems accordingly, biomechanical and physiological demands of the workplace and the individual’s response to these demands have to be known. Hence, biomechanical aspects during application of the exoskeletal systems have to be evaluated. Biomechanical analysis delivers tools and methods to investigate responses of users caused by the interaction between user, workplace, and exoskeleton. This section summarizes common methods for investigations on body movement, muscular and metabolic activity, applied forces, and soft tissue constraints.

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This research is part of the project “smartASSIST—Smart, AdjuStable, Soft and Intelligent Support Technologies” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, funding no. 16SV7114) and supervised by VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH.

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    Andreas Argubi-Wollesen & Robert Weidner

  2. Chair of Production Technology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Robert Weidner

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Argubi-Wollesen, A., Weidner, R. (2018). Biomechanical Analysis: Adapting to Users’ Physiological Preconditions and Demands. In: Karafillidis, A., Weidner, R. (eds) Developing Support Technologies. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01836-8_5

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