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ICCV
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Outdoor Human Motion Capture using Inverse Kinematics and von Mises-Fisher Sampling
Human motion capturing (HMC) from multiview image sequences constitutes an extremely difficult problem due to depth and orientation ambiguities and the high dimensionality of the s...
Gerard Pons-Moll, Andreas Baak, Juergen Gall, Laur...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
107views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Fast resolution of hierarchized inverse kinematics with inequality constraints
— Classically, the inverse kinematics is performed by computing the singular value decomposition of the matrix to invert. This enables a very simple writing of the algorithm. How...
Adrien Escande, Nicolas Mansard, Pierre-Brice Wieb...
ISMB
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Geometric Problems in Molecular Biology and Robotics
Someof the geometric problemsof interest to molecular biologists havemacroscopicanaloguesin the field of robotics. Twoexamples of such analogies are those between protein docking ...
David Parsons, John F. Canny
ISMB
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Kinematic Manipulation of Molecular Chains Subject to Rigid Constraint
Wepresent algorithms for kinematic manipulation of molecular chains subject to fixed bond lengths and bond angles. They are useful for calculating conformations of a molecule subj...
Dinesh Manocha, Yunshan Zhu
CGI
2003
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Reaching Volumes Generated by Means of Octal Trees and Cartesian Constraints
This paper presents a system to analyze the reachability of the human body. The inverse kinematics technique is employed to find which regions of space are reachable using a certa...
I. Rodríguez, Manuel Peinado, Ronan Boulic,...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Efficient Generation of Motion Transitions Using Spacetime Constraints
This paper describesthe application of spacetime constraints to creating transitions between segments of human body motion. The motion transition generation uses a combination of ...
Charles Rose, Brian K. Guenter, Bobby Bodenheimer,...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Redundancy Resolution of a Cartesian Space Operated Heavy Industrial Manipulator
In tunneling and mining construction work, heavy and large manipulators are used to spray liquid concrete on the walls. These manipulators are usually operated manually with simpl...
Marcel Honegger, A. Codourey
MICCAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Flexible Needle Steering and Optimal Trajectory Planning for Percutaneous Therapies
Flexible needle insertion into viscoelastic tissue is modeled in this paper with a linear beam supported by virtual springs. Using this simplified model, the forward and inverse ki...
Daniel Glozman, Moshe Shoham
GW
2005
Springer
91views Biometrics» more  GW 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Simulation of Hemiplegic Subjects' Locomotion
This paper aims at describing a new method to simulate the locomotion of hemiplegic subjects. To this end, we propose to use inverse kinematics in order to make the feet follow a t...
Nicolas Fusco, Guillaume Nicolas, Franck Multon, A...
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
469views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
FPGA-Implementation of Inverse Kinematics and Servo Controller for Robot Manipulator
- The implementation of inverse kinematics and servo controller for robot manipulator using FPGA (Field Programmer Gate Array) is investigated in this paper. Firstly, the mathemati...
Ying-Shieh Kung, Kuan-Hsuan Tseng, Chia-Sheng Chen...