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Depth Camera-Based Posture Discrimination and Motion Interpolation for Real-Time Human Simulation (실시간 휴먼 시뮬레이션을 위한 깊이 카메라 기반의 자세 판별 및 모션 보간)

  • Lee, Jinwon;Han, Jeongho;Yang, Jeongsam
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.68-79
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    • 2014
  • Human model simulation has been widely used in various industrial areas such as ergonomic design, product evaluation and characteristic analysis of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. However, the process of building digital human models and capturing their behaviors requires many costly and time-consuming fabrication iterations. To overcome the limitations of this expensive and time-consuming process, many studies have recently presented a markerless motion capture approach that reconstructs the time-varying skeletal motions from optical devices. However, the drawback of the markerless motion capture approach is that the phenomenon of occlusion of motion data occurs in real-time human simulation. In this study, we propose a systematic method of discriminating missing or inaccurate motion data due to motion occlusion and interpolating a sequence of motion frames captured by a markerless depth camera.

Design of Cubic Spline Interpolator using a PVAJT Motion Planner (PVAJT 모션플래너를 이용한 Cubic Spline 보간기의 설계)

  • Shin, Dong-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.33-38
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    • 2011
  • A cubic spline trajectory planner with arc-length parameter is formulated with estimation by summing up to the 3rd order in Taylor's expansion. The PVAJT motion planning is presented to reduce trajectory calculation time at every cycle time of servo control loop so that it is able to generate cubic spline trajectory in real time. This method can be used to more complex spline trajectory. Several case studies are executed with different values of cycle time and sampling time, and showed the advantages of the PVAJT motion planner. A DSP-based motion controller is designed to implement the PVAJT motion planning.

Methods of Motion Capturing Intangible Cultural Properties in Japan (모션켑쳐(Motion Capture)를 이용한 무형문화재의 기록화 방안에 대한 제연구)

  • Park, Weon-Mo
    • Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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    • v.36
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    • pp.335-346
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    • 2003
  • With the development of media and computer, Motion Capture system, recently used in the entertainment and computer graphics, is emerging as a new recording method. Motion Capture is a system that records time-varying position of sensors which are attached to a objects and translates it to 3-D coordinate on computer. The motion of object displays the time-varying positions of each sensors that are graphed, or the line connected man-shaped model's movements on the computer monitor. And by adding computer graphic character to it, the various angled images, which are difficult to be perceived on the stage, can be easily recorded. Recently in Japan, Motion Capture system is being actively studied in order to use it in recording and preserving the intangible cultural assets of dance and art. Especially, Warabiza in Tazawako art village at Akita plays the leading role in this area through the project to symbolize and establish the archive of cultural dance, further, Ritsumeikan Univ. is develops the system for coupling the motion capture system to Labanotation. This article introduces the motion capture and it's related studies in Japan, which are being actively studied as a new recording method of intangible cultural assets.

A Work Improvement Study by Motion-Time Analysis (동작시간분석에 의한 작업개선연구 -PCB조립작업을 사례로-)

  • 박성학
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.33-40
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    • 1983
  • This paper is one of the case studies to improve the labor productivity of PCB assembly through Work Factor motion-time analysis and the application of the motion economy principles and the human factors engineering theory. In result, we can improve 129% of the labor productivity by using a rotary table for the parts delivery. Therefore, it is expected that this result can be used for a lot of the manual works of the small and medium-sized industries especially.

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A Study on Omission and Suggestive Expressions in Motion Graphics (모션그래픽에서 생략과 암시적 표현에 관한 연구)

  • Youm, Dong-Cheol
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.15
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    • pp.251-265
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    • 2009
  • Motion Graphics are a great effective vehicle for precise communication between customers in various media and formats. The important thing in the expression of Motion Graphics is to deliver messages clearly. Some current Motion Graphics which are focused on only attracting attention or sensational expressions more than narrative are evaluated lower. This study aims to utilize easy and positive Motion Graphics to deliver messages by applying their utility to production of Motion Graphics, omitting time spent on delivering effective messages and analyzing their suggestive expression methods because of the nature of producing Motion Graphics. This thesis is to study several theoretical backgrounds of omission and implicated expressions mentioned in the similar studies from the view of Motion Graphics, and to search applied examples and functional things using the expression methods in some film title sequence. Excellent Motion Graphics use planned omission and implicated methods rather than to use entire narratives or complicated descriptions. Especially, a film title sequence should focus on symbolic visual expressions. They are necessary to attract the audience's interest. To overcome the limitation of time and space deliver a huge amount of information quickly and powerfully, Motion Graphics should properly use omission of image and time and suggestive expressions through symbols and metaphors. Then they will have a role to level up their current values and discussions.

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A Consecutive Motion and Situation Recognition Mechanism to Detect a Vulnerable Condition Based on Android Smartphone

  • Choi, Hoan-Suk;Lee, Gyu Myoung;Rhee, Woo-Seop
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2020
  • Human motion recognition is essential for user-centric services such as surveillance-based security, elderly condition monitoring, exercise tracking, daily calories expend analysis, etc. It is typically based on the movement data analysis such as the acceleration and angular velocity of a target user. The existing motion recognition studies are only intended to measure the basic information (e.g., user's stride, number of steps, speed) or to recognize single motion (e.g., sitting, running, walking). Thus, a new mechanism is required to identify the transition of single motions for assessing a user's consecutive motion more accurately as well as recognizing the user's body and surrounding situations arising from the motion. Thus, in this paper, we collect the human movement data through Android smartphones in real time for five targeting single motions and propose a mechanism to recognize a consecutive motion including transitions among various motions and an occurred situation, with the state transition model to check if a vulnerable (life-threatening) condition, especially for the elderly, has occurred or not. Through implementation and experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed mechanism recognizes a consecutive motion and a user's situation accurately and quickly. As a result of the recognition experiment about mix sequence likened to daily motion, the proposed adoptive weighting method showed 4% (Holding time=15 sec), 88% (30 sec), 6.5% (60 sec) improvements compared to static method.

The Control and the Real-time Analysis of a Horizontally Rotating Inverted Pendulum (수평회전형 도립진자의 제어 및 실시간 해석)

  • 김효중;김헌진;강철구
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1996.11a
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    • pp.341-345
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    • 1996
  • This paper presents the dynamics and the teal-time control of a horizontally rotating inverted pendulum. The dynamic equations representing three degrees of freedom rigid body motion of the pendulum are derived, and the state feedback controller is applied to the motion control of the pendulum. A 32 bit counter board with 16 bit hardware communication ability is developed to improve the real-time control performance and is applied to a horizontally rotating inverted pendulum. The simulation and experimental studies are conducted to evaluate the performance of the developed pendulum system and the timing in the real-time control is analyzed.

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A Study on the analysis of ship motion using system identification method (시스템 식별법을 이용한 선체운동 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Jaeyoung;Yim, Jeong-Bin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2019.11a
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    • pp.271-271
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    • 2019
  • Estimating ship motion is difficult because it take place in complex environments.. Estimating ship motion is an important factor in ensuring the safety of ship, so accurate estimates are needed. Existing motion-related studies compare the apparent motion of the model acquired and the reference model by experimenting with the ship motion on a particular alignment, making it difficult to intuitively estimate the hull motion. This study introduces the concept of estimating the characteristics of ship motion as a transfer function through pole-zero interpretation and frequency response analysis by applying the method of transfer function of Linear-Time Invariant system. Ship motion analysis model using Linear-Time Invariant system is consist with 1) wave as input signal 2) ship motion as output signal 3) hull defined as black box. This model can be defined by numericalizing the ship motion as a transfer function and is expected to facilitate the characterization of the ship motion through pole-zero analysis and frequency response analysis.

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Real-Time Motion Generation Method of Humanoid Robots based on RGB-D Camera for Interactive Performance and Exhibition (인터렉티브 공연·전시를 위한 RGB-D 카메라 기반 휴머노이드 로봇의 실시간 로봇 동작 생성 방법)

  • Seo, Bohyeong;Lee, Duk-Yeon;Choi, Dongwoon;Lee, Dong-Wook
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.528-536
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    • 2020
  • As humanoid robot technology advances, the use of robots for performance is increasing. As a result, studies are being conducted to increase the scope of use of robots in performances by making them natural like humans. Among them, the use of motion capture technology is often used, and there are environmental inconveniences in preparing for motion capture, such as the need for IMU sensors or markers attached to each part of the body and precise high-performance cameras. In addition, for robots used in performance technology, there is a problem that they have to respond in real time depending on the unexpected situation or the audience's response. To make up for the above mentioned problems, in this paper, we proposed a real-time motion capture system by using a number of RGB-D cameras and creating natural robot motion similar to human motion by using motion-captured data.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling Studies on Bacterial Flagellar Motion

  • Kumar, Manickam Siva;Philominathan, Pichai
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.341-348
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    • 2011
  • The study of bacterial flagellar swimming motion remains an interesting and challenging research subject in the fields of hydrodynamics and bio-locomotion. This swimming motion is characterized by very low Reynolds numbers, which is unique and time reversible. In particular, the effect of rotation of helical flagella of bacterium on swimming motion requires detailed multi-disciplinary analysis. Clear understanding of such swimming motion will not only be beneficial for biologists but also to engineers interested in developing nanorobots mimicking bacterial swimming. In this paper, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of a three dimensional single flagellated bacteria has been developed and the fluid flow around the flagellum is investigated. CFD-based modeling studies were conducted to find the variables that affect the forward thrust experienced by the swimming bacterium. It is found that the propulsive force increases with increase in rotational velocity of flagellum and viscosity of surrounding fluid. It is also deduced from the study that the forward force depends on the geometry of helical flagella (directly proportional to square of the helical radius and inversely proportional to pitch).