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.
Determination of subject-specific muscle fatigue rates under static fatiguing operations
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes（南特通信与控制论研究所）；École Centrale de Nantes（南特中央理工学院）；EADS Innovation Works（EADS创新工厂）
A new simple dynamic muscle fatigue model and its validation
Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernetique de Nantes, UMR CNRS 6597, Ecole Centrale de Nantes（南特通信与网络研究所，法国国家科学研究中心联合研究单位6597，南特中央理工大学）；Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University（清华大学工业工程系）
A novel approach for determining fatigue resistances of different muscle groups in static cases
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；École Centrale de Nantes（南特中央理工学院）；Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes（南特通信与控制研究所）；EADS Innovation Works（欧洲宇航防务集团创新中心）
Interactive Motion Planning for Human-Robot Collaboration Based on Human-Centric Configuration Space Ergonomic Field
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, T-Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong（机械与自动化工程系，T-Stone机器人研究所，香港中文大学）；Idiap Research Institute（Idiap研究所）；Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia（先进机器人系，意大利Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia）
Integrating Ergonomics and Manipulability for Upper Limb Postural Optimization in Bimanual Human-Robot Collaboration
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, T-Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong（机械与自动化工程系、T-Stone机器人研究所、香港中文大学）；Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE Bristol（布里斯托尔机器人实验室、UWE布里斯托尔）；HKCLR, Hong Kong（香港物流机器人中心、香港）
Multi-Objective Optimisation Method for Posture Prediction and Analysis with Consideration of Fatigue Effect and its Application Case
Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes（南特通信与控制研究所）；Ecole Centrale de Nantes（南特中央理工学院）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；EADS Innovation Works（EADS创新工作室）
Adaptive Control for Triadic Human-Robot-FES Collaboration in Gait Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学信息学院）；Rey Juan Carlos University（雷伊胡安卡洛斯大学）；Cajal Institute（卡哈尔研究所）；The Alan Turing Institute（艾伦·图灵研究所）
Fatigue evaluation in maintenance and assembly operations by digital human simulation
Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes（南特通信与控制研究所）；École Centrale de Nantes（南特中央理工学院）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；EADS Innovation Works（欧洲宇航防务集团创新工厂）
The interplay of fatigue dynamics and task achievement using optimal control predictive simulation
Laboratoire de Simulation et Modélisation du Mouvement（运动仿真与建模实验室）；École de kinésiologie et des Sciences de l’Activité Physique（运动机能学与体育活动科学学院）；Université de Montréal（蒙特利尔大学）；Centre de réadaptation Marie-Enfant（玛丽-昂方康复中心）；CHU Sainte-Justine（圣贾斯汀大学医疗中心）
