Robotics-based Methods for Human Motion Synthesis: Applications in Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine, Ergonomics, and Computer Animation

Emel Demircan and Oussama Khatib Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

http://cs.stanford.edu/groups/manips/ 3-D Simulations: http://cs.stanford.edu/groups/manips/research/human-motion-synthesis

Operational Space Control Framework * and Human Motion Reconstruction ** Motion Analysis: Acceleration Lines

Individual Muscle Force Contributions to Motion

Whole-Body Muscular Effort

*: “A Unified Approach for Motion and Force Control of Robot Manipulators: The Operational Space Formulation”, Khatib, IEEE J. of Robotics and Automation, 1987 **: “Robotics-based Synthesis of Human Motion”, Khatib et al., J. of Physiology, 2009 “Human Motion Reconstruction by Direct Control of Marker Trajectories”, Demircan et al., Springer, 2008

Subject-Specific Motion Atlas