Past research projects: User Centred Product Design

2015-2017 The project 3D-SILVER (Decision-making Support using Information in Layout Visualization and Ergonomics Representation) (Vinnova, Produktion2030, 2015-01451) aims to provide decision makers in producing industries with better virtual tools for layout planning, ergonomics assessment and workplace design.

2006-2009 The context of the 4D Ergonomics project (VINNOVA/MERA, Dnr 2005-01998) is the simulation of humans in manual assembly tasks. The project builds on the previous ViPP project.

2021-2024 The purpose of the project Automated Design and Optimisation of Vehicle Ergonomics (ADOPTIVE) is to study the physical vehicle user interaction and develop methodology for advanced vehicle ergonomics analyses within simulation tools.

2013-2016 The CROMM (Creation of Muscle Manikins) project (Vinnova Dnr 2012-04584) will result in a user friendly and highly automated software.

2014-2018 The aim of the project was to establish an open, dynamic, and long-lived ecosystem for research, innovation, and education in the field of smart textiles.

2008-2009 The purpose of the research project Digital Albert (KK-stiftelsen Dnr. 2007/0137) is to improve the efficiency of product development processes by exchanging knowledge and experiences about user centred design methods and technologies between the two branches: vehicle and health care industries.

2022-2024 Through an increased degree of digitization, industrial work instructions in the last 20 years have given an increasingly digital representation.

2009-2013 The objective of the IMMA project (ProViking/PV09.13) is to develop a path planner tool that finds a collision free and biomechanically acceptable way for a part and the human who is assembling the part, seen as a system.

2016-2018 In Sweden, physical strain injuries yield a cost of estimated 50 billion SEK annually. The injuries are due to poorly designed workplaces and workers adopting ergonomically incorrect techniques. The smart textile based systems developed in the project will enable large reduction of costs to the society by offering a means to assess work load and prevent injuries, hence enable a longer working life.

2017-2021 SUMMIT aims at inviting Swedish industry to use the Virtual Development Laboratory (VDL) at Chalmers to collaborate, develop and show case the true benefits of digitalization. The project focus is on the sustainability, smart maintenance and factory design phases to strengthen Swedish industries.

2019-2023 The UN sustainability goals and the European and Swedish research agendas describe a need for efficient and effective tools and intervention methods to improve our ability to monitor and prevent disorders and diseases. European and Swedish research agendas also call for efficient digitalisation tools for the design, modelling, simulation, optimisation, visualisation, and forecasting of products and production processes, resources, systems, and factories during their life cycles.

2019-2021 Two of the biggest challenges facing the manufacturing industry over the next decade are digitization and demographic changes. Changes in demography are going to lead to an older workforce and greater challenges in attracting skilled labour.

2021-2024 Project TIMEBLY will develop time data management for manual assembly operations at small volumes and large variation.

2017-2019 The overarching purpose of the VEAP research project (KK-stiftelsen/INFINIT Dnr 20160292) is to study the implementation of DHM (digital human modelling) simulation in industrial production system development processes to support proactive consideration of ergonomics issues in early development phases.

2001-2004 The context of the VERDI project was the employment of human simulation tools for occupant packaging in vehicle design processes.

2015-2016 The aim of the Virtual Driver project (KK-stiftelsen/INFINIT Dnr 20140296) was to carry out research related to the development of the Swedish digital human modelling (DHM) tool IMMA (Intelligently Moving Manikins) to further develop the tool so that it can be utilised in the vehicle industry to perform efficient and valid virtual driver-vehicle interaction analyses.

2017-2019 The aim of the Virtual Driver Ergonomics project (KK-stiftelsen/INFINIT Dnr 20160296) was to carry out research related to the development of the Swedish digital human modelling (DHM) tool IPS IMMA so that it is able to assist product developers in the vehicle industry to perform fast and objective virtual driver-vehicle interaction analyses of physical ergonomics.

2016-2018 The objective of the Virtual Verification of Human-Robot Collaboration project (Vinnova Dnr 2015-03719) is to perform research and development actions needed for the creation of a simulation tool that facilitates efficient and valid simulation of human-robot collaboration and where the consideration of human variation is supported.

2019-2022 The objective of the VIVA (the Virtual Vehicle Assembler) project is to perform research and development actions to provide Swedish vehicle industry with an efficient and usable ergonomics simulation (digital human modelling) tool. The tool will support engineers to, already at early stages of design and development processes, make more precise decisions about operators' ergonomics conditions in future workstations.