To design and develop an exoskeleton suit for industrial working environment

Exoskeleton suit is one of the technological aids to bring benefits to disability and rehabilitation and industrial worker, especially of manually material handling at the factory floor. The repetitive motion during the operation caused different types of injuries. Physiological assessment towards industrial exoskeleton suit is getting the attention in order the suit is truly able to aid the workers in the challenging working environment. This paper presents a developed exoskeleton suit to allow users to operate it regardless the body size or weight with a substantial comfortable level. The testing result revealed the developed suit not only fulfills the physiological aspect assessment, but the load lifting and EMG sensor signal capturing performance were consistent as well. The Finite Element Analysis (FEA) result also verified the mechanical design is below the yield stress during load lifting operation.