In this article, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has been used to model the relationship between the gender of human subject to its response to whole-body vibration (WBV). To train, validate and test the model, an experiment was conducted on 20 female and 20 male subjects at different vibration frequencies in the range of 20 to 45 Hz. The response was measured by taking the ratio between the subject head’s horizontal acceleration to the platform’s vertical acceleration. The subjects’ body mass index, mass, height, gender, and age, and the excitation frequency were used as inputs to the ANN. The ANN model showed a good performance of 98.645% matching regression, and RMSE and MAE of 0.0128 and 0.0483, respectively.
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