A new muscle fatigue and recovery model and its ergonomics application in human simulation

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 123-137

  Ma, Liang ^a,b   Chablat, Damien ^a   Bennis, Fouad ^a   Zhang, Wei ^b   Guillaume, François ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital human modeling; Ergonomics analysis; Human simulation; Muscle fatigue and recovery model; Objective work evaluation; Physical fatigue evaluation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL HUMAN MODELING; ERGONOMICS ANALYSIS; FATIGUE EVALUATION; HUMAN SIMULATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE AND RECOVERY MODEL; OBJECTIVE WORK EVALUATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS; MUSCLE; RECOVERY;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 77956576019     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2010.504056     Document Type: Article

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