Fatigue evaluation in maintenance and assembly operations by digital human simulation in virtual environment

Virtual Reality

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-68

  Ma, Liang ^a   Chablat, Damien ^a   Bennis, Fouad ^a   Zhang, Wei ^b   Hu, Bo ^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

Fatigue resistance; Human status; Muscle fatigue model; Physical fatigue evaluation; Virtual human simulation

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE RESISTANCE; HUMAN STATUS; MUSCLE FATIGUE MODEL; PHYSICAL FATIGUE EVALUATION; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

DURABILITY; ERGONOMICS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MODELS; MUSCLE; PRODUCT DESIGN;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79952006767     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-010-0156-8     Document Type: Article

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