Benchmarking occupational exoskeletons: An evidence mapping systematic review

DISCUSSION: This evidence mapping systematic review reveals that the assessment of occupational exoskeletons is a dynamic process, and provides literature-based assessment recommendations. The homogeneity and repeatability of future exoskeleton assessment experiments will increase following these recommendations. The current review recognises the value of variability in evaluation protocols in order to obtain an overall overview of the effect of exoskeletons on the users, but the presented framework strives to facilitate benchmarking the effect of occupational exoskeletons on the users across this variety of assessment protocols.PMID:34600307 | DOI:10.1016/j.apergo.2021.103582

Source: Applied Ergonomics - October 2, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sander De Bock Jo Ghillebert Ren ée Govaerts Bruno Tassignon Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero Simona Crea Jan Veneman Joost Geeroms Romain Meeusen Kevin De Pauw Source Type: research