Contributions to Ranking an Ergonomic Workstation, Considering the Human Effort and the Microclimate Parameters, Using Neural Networks

Abstract

The paper presents a method to use a feed forward neural network in order to rank a working place from the manufacture industry. Neural networks excel in gathering difficult non-linear relationships between the inputs and outputs of a system. The neural network is simulated with a simple simulator: SSNN. In this paper, we considered as relevant for a work place ranking, 6 input parameters: temperature, humidity, noise, luminosity, load and frequency. The neural network designed for the study presented in this paper has 6 input neurons, 13 neurons in the hidden layer and 1 neuron in the output layer. We present also some experimental results obtained through simulations.