A Customizable Digital Human Model for Assembly System Design
For a wholesome and comprehensive planning and design of future hybrid work systems and adaptive workplace assistance systems, several components of these systems are to be considered in detail. To ensure a human-centered and safe prospective planning and
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Abstract For a wholesome and comprehensive planning and design of future hybrid work systems and adaptive workplace assistance systems, several components of these systems are to be considered in detail. To ensure a human-centered and safe prospective planning and design process, these components need to be thoroughly investigated already in early stages of the simulation and virtual environment. In his context, especially the joint workplaces of humans and robots are of increasing importance for industrial assembly systems. For the planning process, existing software in Computer-Aided-Engineering (CAE) provides the possibility to incorporate the factor human by means of digital human models (DHMs) as well as robots by implementing e.g. robot trajectories, path planning and specific factory characteristics. Both partners show the potential to be incorporated in a simulation tool that accounts for the flexibility of robotic technology as well as the variability of the human body, anthropometrically and biomechanically. For an accurate description and simulation of a hybrid work system it is necessary to align the DHM individually to the employee’s anthropometric data and physical performance parameters. These data can be recorded with motion capturing methods and systems and serve as a basis for the human-centered design and planning process of adaptive work assistance in assembly systems and technologies.
J. Deuse (&) L. Stankiewicz Institute of Production Systems, TU Dortmund University, Leonhard-Euler-Straße 5, 44227 Dortmund, Germany e-mail: [email protected] L. Stankiewicz e-mail: [email protected] A. Grötsch S. Wischniewski Unit Human Factors, Ergonomics, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25, 44149 Dortmund, Germany e-mail: [email protected] S. Wischniewski e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 C. Schlick and S. Trzcieliński (eds.), Advances in Ergonomics of Manufacturing: Managing the Enterprise of the Future, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 490, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41697-7_16
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Keywords Human-Robot collaboration Customizable digital human model Individual performance parameters Human-Centered workplace design
1 Motivation The ongoing demographic change in many industrial countries affects the working age population in a large extent. According to predicting calculations, the number of people in Germany, aged between 20 and 65 years, will decrease by 28.8 % until 2060 [1], while 34 % of the population will be aged 65 or above [2]. Related to this change the average age in various industrial companies rises and thus individual limitations of physical performance parameters and expressions of skills appear more frequently. In particular, the motoric skills, such as agility, endurance, coordination and skeletal muscle strength as well as the employee’s physical work capacity show a pronounced age-related interindi
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