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CGA
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Practical Character Physics for Animators
—We describe a graphics system that significantly improves the visual quality of certain types of 3D character motion animated through traditional means by inferring physical pr...
Ari Shapiro, Sung-Hee Lee
MIG
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Angular Momentum Control in Coordinated Behaviors
This paper explores the many uses of angular momentum regulation and its role in the synthesis of coordinated motion generated with physically based characters. Previous investigat...
Victor B. Zordan
JCC
2008
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14 years 17 days ago
Effects of spin-orbit coupling on magnetic properties of discrete and extended magnetic systems
: In accounting for the magnetic properties of discrete and extended compounds with unpaired spins, it is crucial to know the nature of their ground and low-lying excited states. I...
Dadi Dai, Hongjun Xiang, Myung-Hwan Whangbo
ICRA
2005
IEEE
123views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
A Feedback Controller for Biped Humanoids that Can Counteract Large Perturbations During Gait
— In this paper, we propose a new method for biped humanoids to compensate for large amounts of angular momentum induced by strong external perturbations applied to the body duri...
Taku Komura, Howard Leung, Shunsuke Kudoh, James K...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
On Robot Gymnastics Planning with Non-zero Angular Momentum
– Conservation of angular momentum that introduces nonholonomic behavior, underactuation and time dependence, makes the trajectory planning of gymnastic robots difficult. By defi...
Evangelos Papadopoulos, Ioannis Fragkos, Ioannis T...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
121views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Exploiting angular momentum to enhance bipedal center-of-mass control
Abstract— Recent humanoid control investigations have emphasized the importance of controlling whole-body angular momentum throughout a movement task. For typical movement tasks,...
Andreas Hofmann, Marko B. Popovic, Hugh M. Herr