Title
Investigating similarity measures for locomotor trajectories based on the human perception of differences in motions
Abstract
Providing robots with the ability to move humanlike is one of the recent challenges for researchers who work on motion planning in human populated environments. Human-like motions help a human interaction partner to intuitively grasp the intention of the robot. However, the problem of validating the degree of human-likeness of a robot motion is rarely addressed, especially for the forward motion during navigation. One approach is using similarity measures to compare the robot trajectories directly with human ones. For this reason, this paper investigates different methods from the time series analysis that can be applied to measure the similarity between trajectories: the average Euclidean distance, the Dynamic Time Warping distance, and the Longest Common Subsequence. We aim to identify the measure that performs the same way as a human who rates the similarity. Thus, the evaluation of the methods is based on a questionnaire that examines the human perception of differences between walking motions. It is concluded that the human similarity perception is reproduced best by using the Dynamic Time Warping and comparing the derivatives of the path and velocity profiles instead of the absolute values.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ARSO.2015.7428196
2015 IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)
Keywords
Field
DocType
human similarity perception,longest common subsequence,dynamic time warping distance,average Euclidean distance,time series analysis,forward motion,human interaction partner,human-like motions,human populated environments,motion planning,robots,human perception,locomotor trajectories,similarity measures
Motion planning,Computer vision,GRASP,Longest common subsequence problem,Dynamic time warping,Simulation,Computer science,Euclidean distance,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Perception,Trajectory
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Annemarie Turnwald1252.81
Sebastian Eger210.35
Dirk Wollherr367360.01