Adapting human motion for the control of a humanoid robot

Using the pre-recorded human motion and trajectory tracking, we can control the motion of a humanoid robot for free-space, upper body gestures. However, the number of degrees of freedom, range of joint motion, and achievable joint velocities of today´s humanoid robots are far more limited than those of the average human subject. In this paper, we explore a set of techniques for limiting human motion of upper body gestures to that achievable by a Sarcos humanoid robot located at ATR. We assess the quality of the results by comparing the motion of the human actor to that of the robot, both visually and quantitatively.