20204 Recognition of surrounding environment and the body movement of the small humanoid robot with Kinect

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015.21 (0) ◽  
pp. _20204-1_-_20204-2_
Author(s):  
Naoki SUGAWARA
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (17) ◽  
pp. 2-1-2-6
Author(s):  
Shih-Wei Sun ◽  
Ting-Chen Mou ◽  
Pao-Chi Chang

To improve the workout efficiency and to provide the body movement suggestions to users in a “smart gym” environment, we propose to use a depth camera for capturing a user’s body parts and mount multiple inertial sensors on the body parts of a user to generate deadlift behavior models generated by a recurrent neural network structure. The contribution of this paper is trifold: 1) The multimodal sensing signals obtained from multiple devices are fused for generating the deadlift behavior classifiers, 2) the recurrent neural network structure can analyze the information from the synchronized skeletal and inertial sensing data, and 3) a Vaplab dataset is generated for evaluating the deadlift behaviors recognizing capability in the proposed method.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 3771
Author(s):  
Alexey Kashevnik ◽  
Walaa Othman ◽  
Igor Ryabchikov ◽  
Nikolay Shilov

Meditation practice is mental health training. It helps people to reduce stress and suppress negative thoughts. In this paper, we propose a camera-based meditation evaluation system, that helps meditators to improve their performance. We rely on two main criteria to measure the focus: the breathing characteristics (respiratory rate, breathing rhythmicity and stability), and the body movement. We introduce a contactless sensor to measure the respiratory rate based on a smartphone camera by detecting the chest keypoint at each frame, using an optical flow based algorithm to calculate the displacement between frames, filtering and de-noising the chest movement signal, and calculating the number of real peaks in this signal. We also present an approach to detecting the movement of different body parts (head, thorax, shoulders, elbows, wrists, stomach and knees). We have collected a non-annotated dataset for meditation practice videos consists of ninety videos and the annotated dataset consists of eight videos. The non-annotated dataset was categorized into beginner and professional meditators and was used for the development of the algorithm and for tuning the parameters. The annotated dataset was used for evaluation and showed that human activity during meditation practice could be correctly estimated by the presented approach and that the mean absolute error for the respiratory rate is around 1.75 BPM, which can be considered tolerable for the meditation application.


2004 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 1524-1535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grégoire Courtine ◽  
Marco Schieppati

We tested the hypothesis that common principles govern the production of the locomotor patterns for both straight-ahead and curved walking. Whole body movement recordings showed that continuous curved walking implies substantial, limb-specific changes in numerous gait descriptors. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to uncover the spatiotemporal structure of coordination among lower limb segments. PCA revealed that the same kinematic law accounted for the coordination among lower limb segments during both straight-ahead and curved walking, in both the frontal and sagittal planes: turn-related changes in the complex behavior of the inner and outer limbs were captured in limb-specific adaptive tuning of coordination patterns. PCA was also performed on a data set including all elevation angles of limb segments and trunk, thus encompassing 13 degrees of freedom. The results showed that both straight-ahead and curved walking were low dimensional, given that 3 principal components accounted for more than 90% of data variance. Furthermore, the time course of the principal components was unchanged by curved walking, thereby indicating invariant coordination patterns among all body segments during straight-ahead and curved walking. Nevertheless, limb- and turn-dependent tuning of the coordination patterns encoded the adaptations of the limb kinematics to the actual direction of the walking body. Absence of vision had no significant effect on the intersegmental coordination during either straight-ahead or curved walking. Our findings indicate that kinematic laws, probably emerging from the interaction of spinal neural networks and mechanical oscillators, subserve the production of both straight-ahead and curved walking. During locomotion, the descending command tunes basic spinal networks so as to produce the changes in amplitude and phase relationships of the spinal output, sufficient to achieve the body turn.


1963 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD BAINBRIDGE

1. Observations made on bream, goldfish and dace swimming in the ‘Fish Wheel’ apparatus are described. These include: 2. An account of the complex changes in curvature of the caudal fin during different phases of the normal locomotory cycle. Measurements of this curvature and of the angles of attack associated with it are given. 3. An account of changes in area of the caudal fin during the cycle of lateral oscillation. Detailed measurements of these changes, which may involve a 30 % increase in height or a 20 % increase in area, are given. 4. An account of the varying speed of transverse movement of the caudal fin under various conditions and the relationship of this to the changes in area and amount of bending. Details of the way this transverse speed may be asymmetrically distributed relative to the axis of progression of the fish are given. 5. An account of the extent of the lateral propulsive movements in other parts of the body. These are markedly different in the different species studied. Measurements of the wave length of this movement and of the rate of progression of the wave down the body are given. 6. It is concluded that the fish has active control over the speed, the amount of bending and the area of the caudal fin during transverse movement. 7. The bending of the fin and its changes in area are considered to be directed to the end of smoothing out and making more uniform what would otherwise be an intermittent thrust from the oscillating tail region. 8. Some assessment is made of the proportion of the total thrust contributed by the caudal fin. This is found to vary considerably, according to the form of the lateral propulsive movements of the whole body, from a value of 45% for the bream to 84% for the dace.


2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Sloterdijk

The articles in this first installment of a series on choreography that considers the relationship between philosophy and dance interrogate conceptions of the body, movement, and language. Translated for the first time into English, the selection by José Gil reads the dancing body as paradoxical through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; and the chapter by Peter Sloterdijk examines modernity's impulse toward movement and posits a critical theory of mobilization. An interview with choreographer Hooman Sharifi accompanies a meditation on his recent performance.


Author(s):  
Hemanth Kumar. R

Healthcare systems are a very important part of the economy of any country and for the public health. The IoT-based monitoring system for patients with paralysis, which helps to promote the health condition of a patient with paralysis, in addition to the day-to-day life. India has suffered a stroke, the incidence is much higher than that of the more developed countries, it is home to around 2.1 million Indians suffered from the boom of the (lame) per year. If a patient is suffering from a paralysis attack in all or any part of the body can be turned off in order to move in, which means that their movement is restricted and they can barely communicate with anyone at all, because they can't talk like a normal person. Raccoons will find it difficult to understand what they are saying, and help them deal with their day-to-day needs, such as food, water, etc.). At present, work is in progress on the review of the motion parameters on the legs, arms, and head of the paralytics. This paper investigates the development of an integrated and portable prototype is a model of a system for the monitoring of the various movements of the body, spinal cord injuries, with the help of sensors. The tests were carried out by placing the sensors on the head, arm, and leg of the paralyzed patient the data received from these sensors are sent to the raspberry pi 3 model. In the Android app, you'll receive a verbal warning, and if the patient is in need of help via Bluetooth, which, in turn, is connected to the raspberry pi.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 1703
Author(s):  
Bixuan DU ◽  
Mingming ZHANG ◽  
Keye ZHANG ◽  
Jie REN ◽  
Weiqi HE

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Laura Oyuela Morales

Resumen El presente artículo aborda la práctica dancística como un escape a los modelos de cuerpo inmóvil construidos por la sociedad, reflexionando acerca de las formas en que la danza puede ser un medio óptimo para el desarrollo del cuerpo en movimiento que hace parte de todos los ámbitos de la vida y cuya praxis puede ser introducida en los sistemas educativos como un eje transversal al aprendizaje y al reconocimiento del mundo. Se plantea entonces el siguiente problema: ¿Cómo la práctica dancística puede ser una estrategia dentro del contexto educativo para el desarrollo de un cuerpo más consciente y atento? Cuestión que es tratada desde una metodología descriptiva y reflexiva fundamentada en la revisión teórica de los conceptos de cuerpo, movimiento, modelos culturales y pedagógicos, y danza, para finalmente sugerir la práctica dancística como una estrategia pedagógica óptima para la construcción de un cuerpo consciente y atento.Palabras clavesCuerpo; danza; disciplina; educación; movimiento; reconocimiento corporal The Practice of Dance as a Strategy Within the Educational Context for the Development of a More Conscious and Attentive BodyAbstract This article approaches the practice of dance as an escape from the models of the still body built by society, reflecting on the ways in which dance can be an optimal medium for the development of the body in movement that is part of all areas of life and whose praxis can be introduced in the educational systems as a transversal axle to the learning and the recognition of the world. The following problem arises: How can dance practice be a strategy within the educational context for the development of a more conscious and attentive body? A question that is treated from a descriptive and reflexive methodology based on the theoretical revision of the concepts of body, movement, of cultural and pedagogical models, and of dance, to finally suggest the practice of dance as an optimal pedagogical strategy for the construction of a conscious and attentive body.KeywordsBody; dance; discipline; education; movement; body recognition.Practica Dancística sug estrategiasina ukuma contexto educativo desarrollopepa sug cuerpomanda mas consiente  y atento Maillallachiska:Kai articulok aborda chi practica Dancistica mitikugsina modelos  cuerpo mana kuiurri ruraska  sociedadpe, iuiarrspa imasa danzak kangapaka sug medio suma cuerpo kuiurringapa ambitope kaugsaipe y chik churrangapa iachachiikunape sug eje transversalsina iachaikuipe reconocimiento kai mundope. Churrarenme negpek kai problema: ¿imasa practica dancistikak pódenme kanga sug estrategia sug cuerpok kacho mas consiente y atento?  Cuestión ka  tratareska sug metodología y descriptiva y reflexiva fundamentada kauaska teorica concepto cuerpo, kuiuriska, modelo cultural  y pedagógico  y danza, chasa nispak mañansapa practica dancística sug  estrategia pedagógica suma iuñachinpaga sug cuerpo conciente y atento. Rimangapa Ministidukuna:Cuerpo; danza; disciplina; educación; kuiurii; reconocimiento corporalLa pratique de la dance comme une stratégie dans le contexte éducatif pour le développement d'un corps plus conscient et attenteRésumé  Cet article aborde la pratique de la danse comme une évasion des modèles du corps immobile construits par la société, en réfléchissant sur les façons dont la danse peut être un moyen optimal pour le développement du corps en mouvement qui fait partie de tous les domaines de la vie et dont la praxis peut être introduite dans les systèmes éducatifs comme un axe transversal à l'apprentissage et à la reconnaissance du monde. Le problème suivant se pose : comment la pratique de la danse peut-elle être une stratégie dans le contexte éducatif pour le développement d'un corps plus conscient et attentif ? Une question qui est traitée à partir d'une méthodologie descriptive et réflexive basée sur la révision théorique des concepts du corps, du mouvement, des modèles culturels et pédagogiques et de la danse, pour finalement suggérer la pratique de la danse en tant que stratégie pédagogique optimale pour la construction d'un corps conscient et attentif. Mots clésCorps; danse; discipline; éducation; mouvement; reconnaissance corporelle


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