Establishment of "gracefulness" evaluation method in motion - Measurement and evaluation based on "line of beauty" -

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26330322
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Kansei informatics
• Research Institution: Osaka Institute of Technology (2015-2016); Nara National College of Technology (2014)
• Principal Investigator: UEDA ETSUKO 大阪工業大学, 工学部, 教授 (90379529)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 動作解析 / 優美な動作 / ロボット動作生成 / 舞踊動作

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The goal of our research is to make the robot movement elegant so that the robot can give a good impression to people. To realize this purpose, modeling of "grace" or "elegance" is necessary. Through the research period, we realized the following items. (1) Modeling of "S-shaped curve" called "line of beauty." (2) Proposal of a method to calculate the feature quantity of classical dance by measuring how much "line of beauty" is included during classical dance movement. (3) Verification of the correlation between the obtained graceful features and the impression that people received. (4) A trial of correcting the hand trajectory of the actual robot.
From the correlation between the proposed graceful feature and the subjective evaluation, we confirmed that the proposed method could express the impression tendency of the classical dance.

Free Research Field

ロボット工学