Reactive Motion Generation with Haptic Display in Human-scale Virtual Environments

Creating reactive motions with conventional motioncapture systems is difficult because they require a variety of task environments. To overcome this drawback, we developed the reactive motion capture system that combines the conventional motion capture system with haptic feedback and a human-scale virtual environment. Our objective is to acquire reactive motion data generated from the interaction between haptic feedback and the virtual environment, using the fact that a person's motions in real world can be represented by the reactions of the person to real objects. We make an animation by a scenario for verifying reactive motion generation generated by the developed system. The results demonstrated that reactive motion generated by the developed system is useful for producing an animation, which includes reactive motion scene.