Vibration effects research on maintenance performance in virtual environment

In the past decades, virtual maintenance has been a vital tool to assist product maintainability design. However, these is few report about the vibration effects on maintenance which has been proved significantly to enhance worker fatigue. In this study, we develop a platform, Semi-physical Simulation Platform (SSP), to analyze vibration effects on maintenance where an advanced Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (A-RULA) is also proposed to realize both static and dynamic assessment of worker postures and fatigue. Furthermore, a series experiments with a specified maintenance task are taken into SSP to investigate the vibration effects on maintenance. The results demonstrate reasonable conclusions about the effects of various frequency vibration and fatigue on maintenance time, maintenance errors, and A-RULA obtained from SSP.

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