Modeling human motor control and predicting how humans will move in novel environments
is a grand scientific challenge. Researchers in the fields of biomechanics and motor control …

Physics simulation offers the possibility of truly responsive and realistic animation. Despite
wide adoption of physics simulation for the animation of passive phenomena, such as fluids …

The center of mass (CoM) of a humanoid robot occupies a special place in its dynamics. As
the location of its effective total mass, and consequently, the point of resultant action of …

We present a motion synthesis framework capable of producing a wide variety of important
human behaviors that have rarely been studied, including getting up from the ground …

Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms presents the subject of computational rigid-body dynamics
through the medium of spatial 6D vector notation. It explains how to model a rigid-body …

Recent years have seen enormous advances in computerization and digitization as well as
a corresponding growth in the use of information technology allowing users to access and …

Existing deep models predict 2D and 3D kinematic poses from video that are approximately
accurate, but contain visible errors that violate physical constraints, such as feet penetrating …

Traditional handcrafted animation often heavily relies on creating keyframes while the in-
betweening is automatically generated through spline-based interpolation. Animators have …

Optimization is an appealing way to compute the motion of an animated character because it
allows the user to specify the desired motion in a sparse, intuitive way. The difficulty of …

This paper introduces an approach to control of physics-based characters based on high-
level features of movement, such as center-of-mass, angular momentum, and end-effectors …