Kinematic approaches of motion generation use joint angles of a specified kinematic skeleton to describe poses and consider motions as sequences of poses. The progression functions, i.e. the functions describing the angular values of the joints over time are usually obtained by motion capturing. So far, approaches to synthesize these functions have only been able to create motions with strong artificial visual appearance. In this paper we present a novel method for generating gait motions from synthesized progression functions. Our method is based on the key observation that the progression functions of the joints involved in gait motions show certain characteristic shapes. Based on empirical evaluations we describe these shapes for all progression functions needed to generate walking movements. Furthermore, we analyze the variation of the described shapes depending on stride length and walking speed. Polynomial splines are used to define functions that mimic the shapes of progression functions and can be easily controlled via the spline parameters. We develop a model that describes how to change the parameters of the splines according to the rules of shape variation observed on empirical data in order to adjust stride length and walking speed. Our method can be used to generate walking motions of virtual characters with user provided stride length or walking speed. To evaluate our method we compare synthesized gait motions with recorded ones. A numerical evaluation shows that the maximal joint displacement between captured and synthesized motions lies within the range of variability of natural human walking.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:35353 |
| Date | 30 October 2019 |
| Creators | Salamah, Samer, Brunnett, Guido, Heß, Tobias, Mitschke, Christian |
| Contributors | Technische Universität Chemnitz |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:report, info:eu-repo/semantics/report, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-228139, 0947-5125, qucosa:20770 |
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