technical term for measuring of human gaits ?

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technical term for measuring of human gaits ? pogo 04-05-2008
Posted by pogo on April 5, 2008, 1:33 am
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I'm wondering what is the technical term for measuring of human gaits - like the
timing, distance of swinging a leg, angle of
rotation of joints, etc., for legged robots. Is there a database of this sort
of thing taken from live animals and people ?

Thanks !
JCD


Posted by D Herring on April 5, 2008, 6:44 pm
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pogo wrote:
> I'm wondering what is the technical term for measuring of human gaits -
> like the timing, distance of swinging a leg, angle of rotation of
> joints, etc., for legged robots. Is there a database of this sort of
> thing taken from live animals and people ?

Start by looking for biometrics (old, non-id-meaning), gait analysis,
or motion capture.

From a search for "gait database":
http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/data/index.html
http://www.sinobiometrics.com/english/Gait%20Databases.asp
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/hid/

From a search for "motion capture database":
http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/

Somewhere I have 30s snippets of 100Hz motion capture data for several
people walking on a treadmill. These contain XYZ position data for
roughly 23 body markers. But many markers contained glitching due to
obscuration, etc. -- the CMU data looks better.

- Daniel

Posted by pogo on April 5, 2008, 9:11 pm
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> pogo wrote:
>> I'm wondering what is the technical term for measuring of human gaits -
>> like the timing, distance of swinging a leg, angle of rotation of
>> joints, etc., for legged robots. Is there a database of this sort of
>> thing taken from live animals and people ?
>
> Start by looking for biometrics (old, non-id-meaning), gait analysis,
> or motion capture.
>
> From a search for "gait database":
> http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/data/index.html
> http://www.sinobiometrics.com/english/Gait%20Databases.asp
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/hid/
>
> From a search for "motion capture database":
> http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/

Thanks! Exactly what I am looking for!
Thanks again !
JCD

Posted by casey on April 5, 2008, 8:10 pm
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On Apr 5, 3:33 pm, "pogo" wrote:
> I'm wondering what is the technical term for measuring
> of human gaits - like the timing, distance of swinging
> a leg, angle of rotation of joints, etc., for legged
> robots. Is there a database of this sort of thing taken
> from live animals and people ?


Did you ever do anything with the CImg library
back in June 2006?

I assume from this post you intend to build a
four legged walking machine?

JC



Posted by pogo on April 5, 2008, 9:10 pm
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> On Apr 5, 3:33 pm, "pogo" wrote:
>> I'm wondering what is the technical term for measuring
>> of human gaits - like the timing, distance of swinging
>> a leg, angle of rotation of joints, etc., for legged
>> robots. Is there a database of this sort of thing taken
>> from live animals and people ?
>
>
> Did you ever do anything with the CImg library
> back in June 2006?
>
> I assume from this post you intend to build a
> four legged walking machine?
>
> JC

Hello again, John! Nah ... I never really did much with the CImg library. I got
sidetracked with building my website and designing
the robotics platform to sell on it. I can't help but think that sometime soon
(in the next 5 years I would hope) that useful
image processing will be affordable for the hobbyist. ( The Evolution Robotics
vision software is now running on embedded
machines, so it seems like something ought to be available to us tinkerers
relatively soon. )

As for building a walking machine, I would prefer to build a 2-legged one
(humanoid). I'd really like to see a child-sized
humanoid platform - maybe 3 feet tall - that would be "affordable" ($5-10,000 or
less, if you call that affordable) But a four
legged one could be just as useful, I suppose.

Shameless, but infrequent, plug for my site: http://www.amazingrobotics.com


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