by Martina Megaro | May 26, 2015 | Robotics
Antagonistic Muscle based Robot Control for Physical Interactions In this paper, we examine a novel biologically-inspired control method, emulating antagonistic muscle pairs based on a nonlinear Hill model. May 26, 2015IEEE International Conference on Robotics and...
by Martina Megaro | May 26, 2015 | Robotics
High-Performance Robotic Muscles from Conductive Nylon Sewing Thread In this paper, we develop a thermomechanical and thermoelectric model of SCP actuators, and examine their controllability. May 26, 2015IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation...
by Martina Megaro | May 8, 2015 | VFX, Visual Computing
Eye-Tracktive: Measuring Attention to Body Parts When Judging Human Motions Virtual humans are often endowed with human-like characteristics to make them more appealing and engaging. May 8, 2015Eurographics 2015 Authors Cathy Ennis (Trinity College Dublin)...
by Martina Megaro | Nov 19, 2014 | Animation, Visual Computing
Generating and Ranking Diverse Multi-Character Interactions Our novel ‘generate-and-rank’ approach rapidly and semi-automatically generates data-driven fight scenes from high-level text descriptions composed of simple clauses and phrases. From a database...
by Martina Megaro | May 31, 2014 | Animation, Rendering, Visual Computing
Perceptual Evaluation of Motion Editing for Realistic Throwing Animations In this paper, we study observers’ sensitivity to manipulations of overarm and underarm biological throwing animations. May 31, 2014ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (ACM TAP)...
