A methodology for assessing industrial workstations using optical motion capture integrated with digital human models

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-25

  Du, Jinyan ^a   Duffy, Vincent G ^b  

^a CATERPILLAR INC   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital human modeling; Ergonomics; Manual material handling; Motion capture

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250865005     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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