Effects of an industrial passive assistive exoskeleton on muscle activity, oxygen consumption and subjective responses during lifting tasks

• Xishuai Qu,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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• Chenxi Qu,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Tao Ma,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing for Special Vehicles and Transmission System, Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd., Baotou, China

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• Peng Yin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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• Ning Zhao,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing for Special Vehicles and Transmission System, Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd., Baotou, China

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• Yumeng Xia,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation China North Advanced Technology Generalization Institute, Beijing, China

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• Shengguan Qu

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  * E-mail: qusg@scut.edu.cn

  Affiliations School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing for Special Vehicles and Transmission System, Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd., Baotou, China

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