Robotics

Synergistic prostheses enable the coordinated movement of the human-prosthetic arm, as required by activities of daily living. This is achieved by coupling the motion of the prosthesis to the human command, such as residual limb movement in motion-based interfaces. Previous studies demonstrated that developing human-prosthetic synergies in joint-space must consider individual motor behaviour and the intended task to be performed, requiring personalisation and task calibration.

We introduce a new robotic RGBD dataset with difficult luminosity conditions: ONERA.ROOM. It comprises RGB-D data (as pairs of images) and corresponding annotations in PASCAL VOC format (xml files)

It aims at People detection, in (mostly) indoor and outdoor environments. People in the field of view can be standing, but also lying on the ground as after a fall.

In recent years, researchers have explored human body posture and motion to control robots in more natural ways. These interfaces require the ability to track the body movements of the user in three dimensions. Deploying motion capture systems for tracking tends to be costly and intrusive and requires a clear line of sight, making them ill adapted for applications that need fast deployment. In this article, we use consumer-grade armbands, capturing orientation information and muscle activity, to interact with a robotic system through a state machine controlled by a body motion classifier.