The Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia brings in the consortium its expertise in tactile technologies, humanoid technologies, whole-body dynamics estimations in human and humanoids. Francesco Nori has a longstanding experience in EU projects and brings in ANDY his expertise in coordinating EU projects of similar structure (CoDyCo).

Otto Bock will take care of the following activities:

• define the and contribute to the requirements of technologies, prototypes and evaluation scenarios of this project;
• play a main role in the Scenario 2 (support for manual labor tasks – upper extremity);
• adapt an already existing orthotic device for upper limb support in car assembly and develop it further to an actuated exoskeleton
• co-develop the interfaces to the sensor-system (ANDYSUIT);
• develop together with IIT the control mechanisms for the exoskeleton;
• OBGH will participate in the evaluation of the Scenario 2

AnyBody Technology A/S (SME) contributes to the project with its expertise in detailed musculoskeletal modeling, here-under modeling of man-machine interfaces. This plays a fundamental role in the dynamic modeling activities; not only to develop the models but also to find the best parameters and tuning approaches for the models for a given subject. Furthermore, ABT expertise will be exploited in the development of the ANDYDATASET dataset and in the development of the estimation technologies. Musculoskeletal models will be one of the tools to estimate properties that cannot be measured directly or accurately. Detailed musculoskeletal models will also be a tool to accurately estimate parameters that are being approximated during the real-time applications and as such, they can be used while verifying the accuracy of these applications.

A primary focus of ABT will be to bring as much of the detailed musculoskeletal model information into the real-time dynamics models as possible and to bring as much of efficiency as possible back into the detailed musculoskeletal models for independent usage, for instance as part of detailed post-processing ergonomic analysis of scenarios such as the three scenarios of the project. Enhanced ergonomic assessment models based on detailed musculoskeletal model data are also a focus area of ABT.