We report on a sensor data fusion algorithm via an extended Kalman filter for estimating the spatial motion of a bipedal robot. Through fusing the sensory information from joint encoders, a 6-axis inertial measurement unit and a 2-axis inclinometer, the robot's body state at a specific fixed position can be yielded. This position is also equal to the CoM when the robot is in the standing postur...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a remote control system for a bio‐ inspired jumping robot. The system is composed of a server, a gateway, and a jumping robot. The proposed remote control system is used to monitor the posture of the jumping robot and control it in remote places. A three‐axis accelerometer is used to detect the t...

Standing ride type vehicles like electric skateboards have been developed in recent years. Although these vehicles have advantages as being compact and low cost due to their simple structure, it is necessary to improve the riding quality. Therefore, the system aiding riders to keep their balance on a skateboard by feedback control or feedforward control has been required. To achieve it, a human...

The aim of this work is to characterize the regularity and variability of human arm movements. The arm posture is quantified by a swivel angle that is experimentally measured when a healthy subject is reaching for targets in a spherical workspace. It is shown that without specific instruction, a subject moving his/her arm tends to use a consistent arm posture with small variations when reaching...

aim and background: poor nutritional behaviors currently are a widespread issue. poor nutritional behaviors include inability to maintain control over eating, food restriction with the purpose of influencing on weight and shape, and tendency toward overeating in response to the negative emotions. this study was conducted to review the relationship between the perceived body satisfaction, perfec...

In the January issue of Diabetes Care, Krein et al. (1) reported that the presence of chronic pain was associated with poor diabetes self-management. Their study was performed in a primarily male veteran population, and glycemic control was not addressed. We examined psychosocial factors associated with poor glycemic control in a largely female population followed in an urban, underserved, prim...

Emotion researchers have distinguished between automatic vs. controlled processing of evaluative information. There is suggestive evidence that social anhedonia might be associated with problems in controlled evaluative processing. The current study examined whether college students with elevated social anhedonia would exhibit an increased processing effect on tasks involving either evaluative ...

We present a model of interpersonal attitude used for generating expressive postures for computer animated characters. Our model consists of two principle dimensions, affiliation and status. It takes into account the relationships between the attitudes of two characters and allows for a large degree of variation between characters, both in how they react to other characters’ behaviour and in th...