New Practice for Assessment Method for Exoskeletons in Logistics: Box and Bag Handling
1. Scope
This practice presents a standardized method for testing and assessing industrial exoskeletons on human subjects in realistic working scenarios with professional users. Since the effectiveness of exoskeletons depends on the specific application, studies should be conducted with exoskeleton-related tasks. This documents includes work scenarios from logistics, as box or bag handling. A variety of qualitative and quantitative measures can be acquired during testing. The measures are related to the subjects’ biomechanics, metabolics, comfort, usability and work output quality. This practice combined with the test method, shall be performed in a testing laboratory or the field where the specified apparatus and environmental conditions are implemented. Also this practice enables the creation of a big pool of data for exoskeletons on test setups and the opportunity to compare and classify the exoskeleton on the global market.
Keywords
exoskeleton, industrial, occupational, assessment, work scenarios
Rationale
No standard that currently addresses assessment methods for industrial exoskeletons
