Journal
SENSORS
Volume 19, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s19153391
Keywords
exoskeleton; upper limb; design; musculoskeletal injuries; validation; AnyBody (TM); electromyography
Funding
- AURORA project of the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain [DPI2015-70415-C2-R]
- Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
- Conselleria d'Educacio, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- ACIF [2018/214, 2016/216]
- APOTIP [2017/001]
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In this paper, the analysis of the intensity of muscle activations in different subjects when they perform an industrial task in a repetitive way assisted by a robotic upper-limb exoskeleton is presented. To do that, surface electromyography (EMG) signals were monitored with and without a robotic upper-limb exoskeleton for 10 subjects during a drilling task, a typical tedious maintenance or industrial task. Our results show that wearing the upper-limb exoskeleton substantially reduces muscle activity during a drilling task above head height. Specifically, there is statistically significant differences in the pectoralis major and rhomboids muscles between the groups wearing or not wearing the robotic upper-limb exoskeleton.
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