Research – Therapy Robotics
Open Stage Motion Capture System
Summary:
In the ongoing effort to make robots more humanesque, studying how people move and perform actions is a necessity. However, dynamic data collection is tricky when it comes to humans due to a distinct lack of built in software and usb ports. Happily things have just gotten a whole lot easier for us in the CARIS Lab with the installation of the new Open Stage motion capture system in room X209.
Open Stage uses colour differentiation to generate a voxel (3D pixel) cloud of your subject, from which a wire-frame skeleton is derived. Translation and rotation data are captured for 21 joints on the skeleton and then stored in Matlab as matrices. And the best part is Open Stage is markerless, so just step into the capture area, strike a pose, and let the magic* begin!
