A Supernumerary Soft Robotic Limb for Reducing Hand-Arm Vibration Syndromes Risks.

ABSTRACT: The most common causes of the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) have been identified as joint overloading, bad postures, and vibrations. In the last two decades, various solutions ranging from human-robot collaborative systems to robotic exoskeletons have been proposed to mitigate them. More recently, a new approach has been proposed with a high potential in this direction: the supernumerary robotic limbs SRLs are additional robotic body parts (e.g., fingers, legs, and arms) that can be worn by the workers, augmenting their natural ability and reducing the risks of injuries. These systems are generally proposed in the literature for their potentiality of augmenting the user's ability, but here we would like to explore this kind of technology as a new generation of (pers

SUBMITTER: Ciullo AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8418115 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature