Generating natural posture in an android by mapping human posture in three-dimensional position space

Abstract

In order to develop a robot working in daily situations, it is necessary to discover the principles relevant to establishing and maintaining social interaction between human and robot. One important issue is discovering how to naturally animate a robot to maintain social interaction. This study tackles the issue through implementing natural motions in the android which closely resembles those of human beings. This paper proposes a method to implement postures that look human by mapping the three-dimensional positions of a human subject body onto the android.