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

fYear

2015

fDate

21-24 April 2015

Firstpage

397

Lastpage

401

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and Nanotechnology (ELNANO), 2015 IEEE 35th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kiev

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ELNANO.2015.7146918

Filename

7146918