Title :
Analysis of a handshake between humans using wavelet transforms
Author :
Melnyk, Artem ; Henaff, Patrick ; Popov, Anton
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France
Abstract :
Physical and social interaction between humans and robots are important for humanoid robotics. In this paper the physical characteristics of handshakes between humans are deeply analyzed using the wavelet transforms to reproduce future experiments of handshakes between a human and a robot. A special pair of data gloves has been designed to measure acceleration patterns of human arms during handshakes. Most energy of an acceleration signal reached by wavelet coefficients is concentrated within the time range of the Physical Contact phase and a Mutual Synchrony phase, with scale range corresponding to the durations of wavelet components from 0.5 to 2 s. Experiment results show that handshaking phases can be qualitatively characterized by wavelet scalogram analysis.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; data gloves; human-robot interaction; humanoid robots; wavelet transforms; acceleration pattern; acceleration signal; data glove; handshake; handshaking phase; human arm; humanoid robotics; humans; mutual synchrony phase; physical contact phase; physical interaction; social interaction; wavelet coefficient; wavelet component; wavelet scalogram analysis; wavelet transform; Acceleration; Biomedical measurement; Conferences; Continuous wavelet transforms; Wavelet analysis; data glove; handshake; physical interaction; wavelet transforms;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and Nanotechnology (ELNANO), 2015 IEEE 35th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kiev
DOI :
10.1109/ELNANO.2015.7146918
