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Comfort Posture and Position of Push-Pull Operation of the Sagittal Plane in Standing

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Push-pull operation is often used in daily work and life. The position of the operating lever, the grab bar, handrail, and the buckle slot is one of the main factors that affect the push-pull task performance. Through the test analysis of 30 people’s push and pull task, the comfort movement ranges of the elbow joint and the shoulder joint, as well as the acceptable height ranges of hand in the sagittal plane were obtained. The research results demonstrated some practical applications for the comfort evaluation of single light load push-pull operation and the ergonomics evaluation of the general manual control layout and position.

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This research was supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program (2014BAK01B04, 2014BAK01B02, and 2014BAK01B05), 2015 Beijing Municipal Education Commission Research Project (12213991508101/008).

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China

    Ai-ping Yang, Wen-yu Fu & Guang Cheng

  2. Ergonomics Laboratory, China National Institute of Standardization, No.4 Zhi Chun Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100088, China

    Xin Zhang & Hui-min Hu

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Yang, Ap., Fu, Wy., Cheng, G., Zhang, X., Hu, Hm. (2016). Comfort Posture and Position of Push-Pull Operation of the Sagittal Plane in Standing. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_21

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