3D motion analysis of national rider athletes by riding types in horse simulator

This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) motion analysis, motion database construction, and 3D motion visualization of national rider athletes under horse simulator environments. The 3D motion database captured from national rider athletes are constructed by four riding types such as walking, trotting, cantering, and galloping. Finally we cover the motion analysis and evaluation based on the flexion angle of elbow, knee, and backbone, the y-axis position of hip by each riding type for 3D motion analysis of national rider athletes in horse simulator.