TY - GEN
T1 - Joystick ergonomic study in material handling using virtual humans
AU - Pitarch, Esteban Peña
AU - Yang, Jingzhou
AU - Abdel-Malek, Karim
AU - Kim, Joo
AU - Marler, Tim
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Raw material and product manufacturing are related to material handling. Although there have been great advances in technologies, regulations, methodologies, strategies, and workplace safety, the number of fatalities, the severity of injuries, and the number of lost workdays per accident-incident related to material handling continue keeping high. Some hand injuries occur when the operators repetitively use joysticks to handle materials in manufacturing environment. This paper studies joystick ergonomics used in the material handling equipment and evaluates the design and use of joysticks using a new generation of virtual humans (Santos™). The Denavit-Hartenberg method is implemented to analyze the 25-degree-of-freedom (DOF) hand model of the virtual humans. Human performance measures (joint torques and joint displacements) are criteria for the design of joysticks in the material handling machines.
AB - Raw material and product manufacturing are related to material handling. Although there have been great advances in technologies, regulations, methodologies, strategies, and workplace safety, the number of fatalities, the severity of injuries, and the number of lost workdays per accident-incident related to material handling continue keeping high. Some hand injuries occur when the operators repetitively use joysticks to handle materials in manufacturing environment. This paper studies joystick ergonomics used in the material handling equipment and evaluates the design and use of joysticks using a new generation of virtual humans (Santos™). The Denavit-Hartenberg method is implemented to analyze the 25-degree-of-freedom (DOF) hand model of the virtual humans. Human performance measures (joint torques and joint displacements) are criteria for the design of joysticks in the material handling machines.
KW - Grasping
KW - Injuries
KW - Material handling
KW - Virtual humans
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33645993270&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2005-79968
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2005-79968
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33645993270
SN - 0791842231
SN - 9780791842232
T3 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing Engineering Division, MED
SP - 1415
EP - 1420
BT - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing Engineering Division, MED
T2 - 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2005
Y2 - 5 November 2005 through 11 November 2005
ER -