Experimental analysis on human walking animation of virtual robot in 3D visual space

The objective of the study is related to an on-going project "Virtual Collaborator" which is a sort of "virtual robot" that behaves like a human in a virtual environment. In conjunction with the Virtual Collaborator Project, an experimental study was conducted with the purpose of exploiting a more efficient method of a natural human walking phantom. The study consists of cross-correlation analysis for a selected pair of body parts of the phantom's walk motion and subjective rating by persons observation by showing them various sets of phantom walking animation. Then, an efficient method of synthesizing animation of natural human walking is proposed.