Development of a system for automatic evaluation of physical workload and searching for optimum working condition

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350449
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: SEO Akihiko 首都大学東京, システムデザイン研究科, 教授 (80206606)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): CHIHARA Takanori 首都大学東京, システムデザイン研究科, 助教 (00582967)
• Research Collaborator: KADOMATSU Makoto
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 人間工学 / 作業姿勢

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For improving comfortable work place, various physical workload evaluation methods were used. The traditional method were based on visual inspections, thus application of detailed work load analysis for digital factory environment was limited. In this study, we developed an automatic posture generation method using posture characteristics related to working conditions and real working posture data. A new posture evaluation method for a given working posture was also developed based on biomechanical modeling. This method enabled to visualize the work load and to search optimum working posture with minimum numbers of parameters for the analysis.

Free Research Field

社会システム工学・安全システム