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What does a hand-over tell? - Comparative analysis of kinematic data
Which relations exist between properties of animals or people and their kinematic patterns? For example, can we tell, who performed a hand-over of which kind of object under which conditions just by looking at the sequence of joint angles? We try to find answers to these questions by employing a 3D motion tracking system.
Subjects with different properties and different experimental conditions are compared. We are interested in the question, if the differences and similarities between the subjects and experimental conditions are mirrored by differences and similarities between the resulting trajectories, so that the observed trajectories allow conclusions about the properties of the subjects or the experimental conditions.
One goal of our work is, to extract motion primitives from both human subjects, the giver and the receiver. This project is restricted to the biological side of the question, but it is intended, that the found motion primitives can be transferred to an artificial system in other projects. One contribution of our work for this purpose is a database of human hand-over motions.
