Graduation Year
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.Cp.
Degree Granting Department
Engineering Computer Science
Major Professor
Yu Sun
Keywords
Functional Data Analysis, Humanoid, Learning by Demonstration, Motion Analysis, Motion Capture
Abstract
This thesis presents a new human-like upper limb and hand motion generating method. The work is based on Functional Principal Component Analysis and Quadratic Programming. The human-like motion generating problem is formulated in a framework of minimizing the difference of the dynamic profile of the optimal trajectory and the known types of trajectory. Statistical analysis is applied to the pre-captured human motion records to work in a low dimensional space. A novel PCA FPCA hybrid motion recognition method is proposed. This method is implemented on human grasping data to demonstrate its advantage in human motion recognition. One human grasping hierarchy is also proposed during the study. The proposed method of generating human-like upper limb and hand motion explores the ability to learn the motion kernels from human demonstration. Issues in acquiring motion kernels are also discussed. The trajectory planning method applies different weight on the extracted motion kernels to approximate the kinematic constraints of the task. Multiple means of evaluation are implemented to illustrate the quality of the generated optimal human-like trajectory compared to the real human motion records.
Scholar Commons Citation
Dai, Wei, "FPCA Based Human-like Trajectory Generating" (2013). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/4811
