Objective Ergonomics is an important technology in the effort to remain competitive. It is increasingly a selling point of products and a major factor in productivity of workplaces. Testing the physical ergonomics of systems is costly, time consuming and current methodologies offer no guarantee of transferability of results. However failure to go through this process can result in a product that is not competitive or even usable. If it were possible to extrapolate and interpolate to many configurations of a workplace from a limited number of training configurations then testing would become quicker and cheaper. If it were possible to take the results of a previous test campaign and know how far they could be considered applicable to a completely new product then even more money could be saved. ANNIE will take human movement data from ergonomics experiments and use neural net computing to calculate how the test subjects would have moved in other circumstances. The application of this powerful computing paradigm to human movement data analysis promises to cut time and effort in ergonomics testing and the development of a common methodology for these experiments, when made available at a European level, offers the opportunity to bring industrial R&D in this area across the continent up to the highest level. A considerable part of the effort will be given over to obtaining user requirements from outside the group of partners directly involved in the project. In this way the resulting system will be more industrially relevant and the performance of the work at a European level can be most productive. From the start the researchers will concentrate on industrially relevant scenarios while applying the strictest possible experimental and scientific rigour. The combination of industry and academia with deep knowledge of ergonomics and biomechanics will temper each other. At the end of the project the software and methodology system will be already applicable to genuine industrial problems and at the same time open and flexible enough to expand in the future. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencesocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitynatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiophysicssocial sciencespsychologyergonomicsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0105 - Human and organizational factors within production systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Alenia Aerospazio Un'Azienda Finmeccanica SpA Address Via saccomuro 24 00131 Roma Italy See on map EU contribution No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Coeme Sistema Srl Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via i maffio 120/122 10040 Rivalta di torino torino See on map Other funding No data Delta Industrie Informatik GmbH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 2,schaflandstrasse 70736 Fellbach See on map Other funding No data Lund University Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address 221 00 Lund See on map Other funding No data POLITECNICO DI TORINO Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Corso duca degli abruzzi 24 10129 Torino See on map Other funding No data POLYTECHNIC OF MILAN Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via golgi, 39 20133 Milano See on map Other funding No data Siemens AG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 6,otto-hahn-ring 6 81735 München See on map Other funding No data Tra-Sta Srl Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via cuneo 1 10048 Vinovo torino See on map Other funding No data VOLVO TECHNOLOGY (CORPORATION) Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9,dept.6000, pvh31 405 08 Goeteborg See on map Other funding No data
