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Processed shoulder EMG and force-plate balance data from 7 construction workers laying 35-lb blocks at two heights on a simulated mast-climbing work platform, without a device and with three anonymized passive shoulder-assist exoskeletons (IJIE, 2024). Public-domain NIOSH dataset, preserved on ICPSR DataLumos with a parallel CDC STACKS record (cdc/208601).

Details

Subjects

n = 7 · 7M

Setting

Laboratory (controlled or simulated)

Protocol / load

35-lb (15.9 kg) cinder blocks laid at elbow and shoulder heights

Equipment

Delsys Quattro/Avanti EMG on six shoulder/upper-arm muscles (2000 Hz); K-Force force plates (75 Hz) for center-of-pressure balance measures

Sampling

emg 2000 Hz · force_plate 75 Hz

Formats

csv

License

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

Keywords

exoskeleton, shoulder, construction, balance, mast-climber, niosh

Added to catalog

2026-09-01

Publications

• Zheng L., Pan C.S., Wei L., Bahreinizad H., Chowdhury S., Ning X., Santos F. (2024). Shoulder-assist exoskeleton effects on balance and muscle activity during a block-laying task on a simulated mast climber. Int. J. Ind. Ergon. 104:103652Two of the three devices significantly increased postural sway on the elevated platform.

Exoskeleton

Record type

Device evaluation

Device(s)

Three anonymized passive shoulder-assist exoskeletons

Body region

Shoulder

Actuation

Passive

Study design

No device vs. three anonymized devices, block-laying at two heights on an unstable elevated platform

Outcomes

Muscle activity (EMG), Kinetics / assistive forces

This record is part of the exoskeleton collection.

Cite

Cite the dataset as its authors request (check the source page for an official citation); this BibTeX is a convenience starting point.

@misc{niosh-shoulder-exo-mast-climber,
  author = {Zheng, L. and Pan, C.S. and Wei, L. and Bahreinizad, H. and Chowdhury, S. and Ning, X. and Santos, F.},
  title  = {{NIOSH: Shoulder-Assist Exoskeletons During Block-Laying on a Simulated Mast Climber}},
  year   = {2024},
  doi    = {10.3886/E239318V1},
  url    = {https://www.datalumos.org/datalumos/project/239318/version/V1/view},
}