Footprint-Driven Locomotion Composition

Footprint-Driven Locomotion Composition

One of the most efficient ways of generating goal-directed walking motions is synthesising the final motion based on footprints. Nevertheless, current implementations have not examined the generation of continuous motion based on footprints, where different behaviours can be generated automatically. Therefore, in this paper a flexible approach for footprint-driven locomotion composition is pres...

Towards Muscle Driven Bipedal Locomotion

Data-driven stochastic modelling of zebrafish locomotion

In this work, we develop a data-driven modelling framework to reproduce the locomotion of fish in a confined environment. Specifically, we highlight the primary characteristics of the motion of individual zebrafish (Danio rerio), and study how these can be suitably encapsulated within a mathematical framework utilising a limited number of calibrated model parameters. Using data captured from in...

The step space: example-based footprint-driven motion synthesis

Especially in a constrained virtual environment, precise control of foot placement during character locomotion is crucial to avoid collisions and to ensure a natural locomotion. In this paper, we present the step space: a novel technique for generating animations of a character walking over a set of desired foot steps in real-time. We use an efficient greedy nearest-neighbor approach and warp t...

A hybrid interpolation scheme for footprint-driven walking synthesis

In many constrained environments, precise control of foot placement during character locomotion is crucial to avoid collisions and to ensure a natural locomotion. In this paper, we present a new exact motion synthesis technique that generates planar parameterized stepping motions based on a combination of rotational and Cartesian interpolation. Existing stepping motions are blended in a lineari...