Synthesis of Lower-Body Human Walking using Trigonometric Spline Method

Abstract

In this work, preliminary results of human motion synthesis are presented. Specifically, a single stride motion (consisting of two steps) of a human lower-body model is obtained. The optimal control problem was reformulated as a nonlinear programming problem using the differential inclusion method. The main goal of this study is to compare the performance of trigonometric and polynomial (B-spline) discretization methods. The obtained results indicate that the trigonometric spline method performs similarly to the B-spline method and results in a smooth motion.