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The assistance of BAZAR robot promotes improved upper limb motor coordination in workers performing an actual use-case manual material handling

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This study aims at evaluating upper limb muscle coordination and activation in workers performing an actual use-case manual material handling (MMH). The study relies on the comparison of the workers' muscular activity while they perform the task, with and without the help of a dual-arm cobot (BAZAR). Eleven participants performed the task and the flexors and extensors muscles of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and trunk joints were recorded using bipolar electromyography. The results showed that, when the particular MMH was carried out with BAZAR, both upper limb and trunk muscular co-activation and activation were decreased. Therefore, technologies that enable human-robot collaboration (HRC), which share a workspace with employees, relieve employees of external loads and enhance the effectiveness and calibre of task completion. Additionally, these technologies improve the worker's coordination, lessen the physical effort required to interact with the robot, and have a favourable impact on his or her physiological motor strategy. Practitioner summary: Upper limb and trunk muscle co-activation and activation is reduced when a specific manual material handling was performed with a cobot than without it. By improving coordination, reducing physical effort, and changing motor strategy, cobots could be proposed as an ergonomic intervention to lower workers' biomechanical risk in industry.
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hal-04370105 , version 1 (03-01-2024)

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Tiwana Varrecchia, Giorgia Chini, Sonny Tarbouriech, Benjamin Navarro, Andrea Cherubini, et al.. The assistance of BAZAR robot promotes improved upper limb motor coordination in workers performing an actual use-case manual material handling. Ergonomics, In press, ⟨10.1080/00140139.2023.2172213⟩. ⟨hal-04370105⟩
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