Description

MONITOREX is aimed at industrial prevention and occupational ergonomics rather than direct physical assistance. Official materials frame it as a continuous-analysis tool that goes beyond one-off posture snapshots by tracking real and repetitive movement patterns, stressed muscle groups, fatigue, and physiological conditions, then combining that information with exoskeleton evaluation to identify high-risk tasks and decide whether a passive or active exoskeleton, and what configuration, is justified for a given user or job.

A 2023 WearRAcon Europe poster provides a more technical description of the underlying system: an upper-limb motion-capture platform using eight Adafruit 9-DOF BNO055 IMUs, an Arduino Nano 33 IoT controller, and a Polar H9 heart-rate strap. The software was described as computing user kinematics, digitizing RULA scores on a 1-7 scale, presenting results through a Grafana web HMI and a Blender-based avatar, and supporting FIWARE integration; the same poster reported preliminary industrial testing with Gogoa’s BESK exoskeleton in a CNC-machine loading task involving 5 kg (11 lb) raw material, while noting that broader validation and additional sensing were still future work at that stage. (link to pdf on A+A website)

Application(s): Workplace ergonomic assessment; occupational risk prevention; exoskeleton selection; exoskeleton validation and impact monitoring in industrial jobs.

Cyber Human Systems, see profile entry

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