Full body suit for ergonomic risk assessment

The cost of musculoskeletal disorders in Canada overpasses the $25 billion dollars every year, this amount can be significantly reduced by proving good quality ergonomic assessments and training. The main reason that not all companies invest on ergonomic assessments and/or training is due to the high costs that this entails. This project aims to reduce the cost of ergonomic assessments and trainings by completely automating the process. The research project is focused on designing and developing a computer software that can receive the signal from different inertial sensors and compute and display the body joint angles, and an ergonomic risk score (i.e., REBA) in an automatic way.

Faculty Supervisor:

Hossein Rouhani

Student:

Partner:

North Forge

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education; Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program: