3. Instrumentations and ergonomic evaluation tools
In this section, the integrated system and all its parts are presented
in detail, illustrating their main characteristics and operation.
It has been divided into hardware sub-system for the
movements’ data collection and software sub-system for the
real-time data processing based on full-body biomechanical model.
This is necessary because the warehousing activities require the
movement of full-body, therefore more than one ergonomics evaluation
methodologies is necessary to give a comprehensive analysis.
These methods are briefly introduced in order to explain the
required data and their elaboration for real-time assessment.