Machine Learning based Human Activity Recognition in Labor-intensive Manufacturing Systems

  • Type:Master Thesis
  • Supervisor:

    Manuel Götz

    Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar

  • Person in Charge:Nico Reimann de la Curz
  • Add on:

    Ongoing

Description

Problem
In labor-intensive manufacturing systems (LIMS), there are “dark spots” in terms of data availability:

  • Many manual processes are not digitally captured.
  • This leads to limited transparency about worker activities, process execution, and bottlenecks.
  • As a result, it is difficult to monitor, optimize, or automate decision-making for these manual tasks.

Goal
Increase data availability and process transparency in LIMS by applying machine-learning-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR):

  • Automatically recognize and classify worker activities using accelerometer data.
  • Generate event logs from previously unobserved manual work.
  • Use these enriched datasets to support process analysis and performance monitoring.

Required Skills and Knowledge

  • Process Mining
  • Machine learning
  • Software development