Research efforts are underway to develop sophisticated computer models of human physiology, biomechanics and appearance. Applications of these "digital humans" range from medical research to virtual reality ...
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Research efforts are underway to develop sophisticated computer models of human physiology, biomechanics and appearance. Applications of these "digital humans" range from medical research to virtual reality entertainment. This paper presents an overview of several motion planning techniques for automatically generating motion trajectories for digital humans. The ultimate goal is to create autonomous animated characters that are able to move naturally and realistically in response to high-level task commands. These "digital human" characters can be viewed as "virtual robots" operating in simulated environments, since developing software to control such characters shares much in common with programming real robots. Experimental results involving both simulated human characters and real humanoid robots are shown.
In this paper, we introduce Block Jam, a Tangible User Interface that controls a dynamic polyrhythmic sequencer using 26 physical artifacts. These physical artifacts, that we call blocks, are a new type of input devic...
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An ID recognition system is described that uses optical beacons and a high-speed image sensor. The ID sensor captures a scene like an ordinary camera and recognizes the ID of a beacon emitted over a long distance. The...
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An ID recognition system is described that uses optical beacons and a high-speed image sensor. The ID sensor captures a scene like an ordinary camera and recognizes the ID of a beacon emitted over a long distance. The ID recognition system has three features. The system is robust to changes in the optical environment, e.g. complete darkness, spotlights, and sunlight. It can recognize up to 255 multiple optical beacons simultaneously. Furthermore, it can recognize beacons even over a long distance, e.g. 40 m indoors and 20 m outdoors. Implementation and evaluation of this ID recognition system showed that a mobile augmented reality system can be achieved by combining this ID recognition system with a PDA and a wireless network.
An ID recognition system is described that uses optical beacons and a high-speed image sensor. The ID sensor captures a scene like an ordinary camera and recognizes the ID of a beacon emitted over a long distance. The...
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This paper describes an experimental stereo vision based motion planning system for humanoid robots. The goal is to automatically generate arm trajectories that avoid obstacles in unknown environments from high-level ...
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This paper describes an experimental stereo vision based motion planning system for humanoid robots. The goal is to automatically generate arm trajectories that avoid obstacles in unknown environments from high-level task commands. Our system consists of three components: 1) environment sensing using stereo vision with disparity map generation and on-line consistency checking, 2) probabilistic mesh modeling in order to accumulate continuous vision input, and 3) motion planning for the robot arm using RRTs (rapidly exploring random trees). We demonstrate results from experiments using an implementation designed for the humanoid robot H7.
We present an online algorithm for planning sequences of footstep locations that encode goal-directed navigation strategies for humanoid robots. Planning footsteps is more general than most existing navigation methods...
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We present an online algorithm for planning sequences of footstep locations that encode goal-directed navigation strategies for humanoid robots. Planning footsteps is more general than most existing navigation methods designed for wheeled robots, since the options of stepping over or upon obstacles in a cluttered terrain are available. Given a discrete set of plausible footstep locations, a forward dynamic programming approach is used to compute a footstep sequence to a specified goal location in the environment. Heuristics designed to minimize the number and complexity of the step motions are used to encode cost functions used for searching a footstep transition graph. If successful, the planner returns an optimal sequence of footstep locations according to the cost functions and plausible sets of footstep locations defined. We show results from an experimental implementation of the algorithm running on the H7 humanoid robot. Using a stereo vision system to sense obstacles in the immediate environment and identify a target goal location, the robot updates the current optimal footstep sequence to the goal from its present location.
We present an integrated humanoid locomotion and online terrain modeling system using stereo vision. From a 3D depth map, a 2.5D probabilistic description of the nearby terrain is generated. The depth map is calculate...
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We present an integrated humanoid locomotion and online terrain modeling system using stereo vision. From a 3D depth map, a 2.5D probabilistic description of the nearby terrain is generated. The depth map is calculated from a pair of stereo camera images, correlation-based localization is performed, and candidate planar walking surfaces are extracted. The results are used to update a probabilistic map of the terrain, which is input to an online footstep planning system. Experimental results are shown using the humanoid robot H7, which was designed as a research platform for intelligent humanoid robotics.
The article discusses an autonomous robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge. In an attempt to solve as much of the AAAI Robot Challenge as possible, five research institutions representing academia, industry and government...
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The article discusses an autonomous robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge. In an attempt to solve as much of the AAAI Robot Challenge as possible, five research institutions representing academia, industry and government integrated their research into a single robot named Grace. The article describes the first-year effort by the Grace team, including not only the various techniques each participant brought to Grace but also the difficult integration effort itself.
Classification problems affect all organizations. Important decisions affecting an organization's effectiveness include predicting the success of job applicants and the matching and assignment of individuals from ...
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Classification problems affect all organizations. Important decisions affecting an organization's effectiveness include predicting the success of job applicants and the matching and assignment of individuals from a pool of applicants to available positions. In these situations, linear mathematical models are employed to optimize the allocation of an organization's human resources. Use of linear techniques may be problematic, however, when relationships between predictor and criterion are nonlinear. As an alternative, we developed a fuzzy associative memory (FAM: a rule-based system based on fuzzy sets and logic) and used it to derive predictive (classification) equations composed of measures of job experience and job performance. The data consisted of two job experience factors used to predict measures of job performance for four US Air Force job families. The results indicated a nonlinear relationship between experience and performance for three of the four data sets. The overall classification accuracy was similar for the two systems, although the FAM provided better classification for two of the jobs. We discuss the apparent nonlinear relationships between experience and performance, and the advantages and implications of using these systems to develop and describe behavioral models.
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