Optimal posture of a human operator and CAD in robotics

Abstract

In complex mechanical systems, the important features to be considered in the earliest phases of assembly design are: the operators accessibility for assembly operations and maintenance checking. We present in this paper a new approach for solving this problem by considering the human operator as a manipulator, taking into account the geometrical and biomechanical constraints. They are integrated by penalizing a global criterion. The solution of the associated optimization problem is obtained with simulated annealing algorithm.