Abstract: International audience; Overhead work is classified as one of the major risk factors for the onset of shoulder work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and muscle fatigue. Upper-limb exoskeletons can be used to assist workers during the execution of industrial overhead tasks to prevent such disorders. Twelve novice participants have been equipped with inertial and force/torque sensors to simultaneously estimate the whole-body kinematics and the joint torques (i.e., internal articular stress) by means of a probabilistic estimator while per...
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