BADGER Lab MS student Tyler Bennett and Director Peter Adamczyk helped host a workshop on understanding issues in technology and application of Exoskeletons and Exosuits in Construction. The workshop is part of an NSF project in the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program, led by PI Zhenhua Zhu in UW-Madison Civil Engineering. The workshop was led by Fei Dai at West Virginia University, but included results of preliminary field tests executed by Tyler in real-world construction tasks.
These experiments have resulted in two workshop publications and an accepted conference paper so far:
[1] S. T. Bennett, P. G. Adamczyk, F. Dai, M. Wehner, D. Veeramani, and Z. Zhu, “Field-Based Assessment of Joint Motions in Construction Tasks With and Without Exoskeletons in Support of Worker-Exoskeleton Partnership Modeling and Simulation,” presented at the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Singapore, Dec. 2022. [Online]. Conference site: https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2022/
[2] S. T. Bennett, P. G. Adamczyk, F. Dai, D. Veeramani, M. Wehner, and Z. Zhu, “Upper extremity exoskeletons in construction, a field-based study,” presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 2022. [Online]. Available: https://construction-robots.github.io/papers/19.pdf
[3] S. T. Bennett, P. G. Adamczyk, F. Dai, D. Veeramani, M. Wehner, and Z. Zhu, “Exoskeletons in construction and their role in the Future of Work,” presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 2022. [Online]. Available: https://construction-robots.github.io/papers/1.pdf