Date of Award
2022
Publication Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.H.K.
Department
Kinesiology
Keywords
Digital human modelling, Joint angles and center of mass, Kinematics, Movement variability, Percentile height, Workplace injuries
Supervisor
J.Cort
Supervisor
F.Biondi
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Abstract
This research aimed to determine if participants of varying anthropometrics (i.e., height) would perform automotive manufacturing tasks significantly differently based on joint angle and center of mass (COM) data. Twenty-four participants between the ages of 18 and 65 (¯x = 24.1 years, SD = 7.3) completed 14 manufacturing tasks, and their motions were recorded using two inertial motion capture (IMC) systems. Participants were chosen based on their measured height, including the 5th percentile female (Group 1-5F), 50th percentile female (Group 2-50F), or 95th percentile male (Group 3-95M) (Fryar, Gu, Ogden & Flegal, 2016). The tasks used for this study were identified as common final automotive assembly tasks by Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) and Statistical non-Parametric Mapping (SnPM) were used to compare joint angles between the three percentile groups and COM data within the 5F group. SPM compared the biomechanical data throughout the entire time series of data collected. SPM one-way ANOVAs (p
Recommended Citation
Smith, Jarrod, "A Kinematic Analysis of Joint Angle and Center of Mass Kinematics in Automotive Manufacturing Tasks" (2022). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 9029.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/9029