Full Body Motion Anticipation using Kinematic, Dynamic, and Symbolic Priors and Controls (P4)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Reinhard Klein, since 4/2020
• Subject Area: Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing
• Term: from 2017 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 313421352

The goal of the project is the anticipation of human full body motions. Combining purely data-driven with physics-based modeling approaches, anticipation of full body motions on the basis of very sparse sensor signals of different nature, e.g., inertial measurement units, EMG sensors, or ground-contact sensors, will be realized. Extending the information on the physics-based layer by model-based anticipation components (including information from balance control, physical constraints) is another important objective to allow robust extrapolations from the range of motions similar to ones recorded in an existing knowledge base to new motion ranges, especially those relatedto disabilities. The anticipated whole-body motions can be used to determine the optimal robot placement for collaborative tasks and for direct entrainment and modulation of ongoing motor behavior. Symbolic labels and trajectories from affordances obtained from other projects of the research unit will be incorporated as additional a priori knowledge on motions, which will reduce computations times, will stabilize short term predictions and even open the door for the method to long-term anticipations.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 2535: Anticipating Human Behavior
• Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Alfred Effenberg
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Andreas Weber, until 4/2020 (†)