Impact of a passive upper-body exoskeleton on muscle activity, heart rate and discomfort during a carrying task

• Gabriela Garcia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mggarcia@usfq.edu.ec

  ¶‡ GG, PGA and BJM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5666-2156

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• Paul Gonzalo Arauz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GG, PGA and BJM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8724-7035

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• Isabel Alvarez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isabel Alvarez, Nicolas Encalada, Shirley Vega

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Nicolas Encalada ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isabel Alvarez, Nicolas Encalada, Shirley Vega

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Shirley Vega ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isabel Alvarez, Nicolas Encalada, Shirley Vega

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Bernard J. Martin

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GG, PGA and BJM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5033-1607

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