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RobCap: A Mobile Motion Capture System Mounted on a Robotic Arm

Journal

IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 917-925

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3128386

Keywords

Motion capture; robotic arm; error; rigid transformation; system calibration

Funding

  1. European Regional Development Fund, Occitanie, France

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This article introduces a mobile motion capture system,RobCap, which can accurately obtain three-dimensional kinematics of human motion with large displacements. RobCap tracks human motion in a local moving frame by installing an optoelectronic motion capture system (Codamotion) on a robotic arm and expresses the local kinematics of markers in a global coordinate system. The performance evaluation shows that RobCap has sufficient accuracy and precision to be used as a mobile motion capture system for large displacements.
FixedMotion Capture systems (Mocap) are wellestablished nowadays and are available in indoor and outdoor environments. Here, we introduce RobCap, a Moving Motion Capture System designed for acquiring accurate three-dimensional kinematics of human motion with large displacements. RobCap consists of an optoelectronicMocap (Codamotion) mounted on a robotic arm, to track the human motion in the local moving frame. This paper presents this device and expresses the local kinematics of the markers in a global coordinate system. We have acquired a set of 560 measurements, by controlling the Robotic arm to follow the subject's movement and to track the markers attached to his wrist. The performance of the RobCap is evaluated through comparison with state-of-the-art technologies. The 3D error is found to be 9.7 +/- 4.1 mm and 3.9 +/- 0.8 mm, respectively without and with calibration. RobCap increases the nominal capture volume of the fixedMocap from 75 m(3) to 523m(3) and the operational volume from105m(3) to 1436m(3). Our findings show that the RobCap is accurate and precise enough to be used as a mobile Mocap system for large displacements.

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