Whole-Body Vibration Response Through the Upper Limbs Associated With Reaching Movements and Posture

Exposure of human operators to whole-body vibration may induce health risks, interfere with manual operation, and compromise tasks performed in a vehicle. For operator’s safety and performance enhancement, numerous investigations have attempted to identify the characteristics of WBV responses of seated individuals. WBV responses are functions of vibration variables and postures. As opposed to earlier studies involving limited static postures, the present work analyzes human responses for a large range of arm postures including two elbow flexion constraints in reaching movements.