USO DEL SENSOR KINECT PARA LA ESTIMACIÓN DEL ERROR COMETIDO AL EMPLEAR EL MÉTODO OWAS DE EVALUACIÓN POSTURAL

Abstract

OWAS ergonomics assessment method identifies the level of risk of the postures adopted by a worker in a workstation and the risk factors to which a worker is exposed. In this work a method was proposed to estimate the error made by using the OWAS Method, using the Kinect sensor and Ergonautas-NUI software. The results have confirmed that increasing the number of observations decreases the error probability and the possibility of overestimate the risk of error. A neural networks model based has been obtained using the characteristics of the task and the frequency of observation employed when assessing a task. Keywords: Ergonomics; Kinect; OWAS