A new approach to muscle fatigue evaluation for Push/Pull task
This addresses fatigue assessment for workers in industries to reduce MSD risks, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing studies of posture and force factors.
The paper tackled the problem of muscle fatigue in push/pull tasks, which is linked to Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD), by proposing a new approach for evaluation at the joint level, but no concrete results or numbers are provided.
Pushing/Pulling tasks is an important part of work in many industries. Usually, most researchers study the Push/Pull tasks by analyzing different posture conditions, force requirements, velocity factors, etc. However few studies have reported the effects of fatigue. Fatigue caused by physical loading is one of the main reasons responsible for MusculoSkeletal Disorders (MSD). In this paper, muscle groups of articulation is considered and from joint level a new approach is proposed for muscle fatigue evaluation in the arms Push/Pull operations. The objective of this work is to predict the muscle fatigue situation in the Push/Pull tasks in order to reduce the probability of MSD problems for workers. A case study is presented to use this new approach for analyzing arm fatigue in Pushing/Pulling.