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Recent studies highlighted the importance of assisting workers for human efforts reduction in manual handling and lifting tasks by using wearable exoskeletons. In this paper, several configurations of a trunk exoskeleton in terms of hinge joint positions are investigated with the attempt to identify the best ones for human efforts reduction. Both human joints loads and interface forces are considered and compared through simulations. The proposed computational approach may be the starting point for the analysis of design and development of effective human assistance devices.
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The present research has been partially supported by MIUR grant Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018–2022 (E11G18000350001).
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Panero, E., Muscolo, G.G., Pastorelli, S., Gastaldi, L. (2020). Model Based Analysis of Trunk Exoskeleton for Human Efforts Reduction. In: Berns, K., Görges, D. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 980. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19648-6_47
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