Mathematics of Human Motion. From Animation towards Simulation (A View form the Outside)

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Издательство Soft-Impact Ltd, 2011, -91 pp.Simulation of human motion is the subject of study in a number of disciplines: Biomechanics, Robotics, Computer Animation, Control Theory, Neurophysiology, Medicine, Ergonomics. Since the author has never visited any of these fields, this review is indeed a passer-by’s impression. On the other hand, he happens to be a human (who occasionally is moving) and, as everybody else, rates himself an expert in Applied Common Sense. Thus the author hopes that this view from the outside will be of some interest not only for the strangers like himself, but for those who are inside as well. Two flaws of the text that follows are inevitable. First, some essential issues that are too familar to the specialists to discuss them may be missing. Second, the author probably failed to provide the uniform level-of-detail for this wide range of topics.Introduction State-of-the-Art of Physically-Based Human Motion Animation Anatomically Correct Human Figure Presentation Neurophysiological Aspects of Human Motion Basic Approaches to Animation of Articulated Figures Motion Editing Analysis and Simulation of Specific Motions Conclusions Known Problems Physically-Based Simulation Engine for Animation