Title
Scalable muscle-actuated human simulation and control
Abstract
Many anatomical factors, such as bone geometry and muscle condition, interact to affect human movements. This work aims to build a comprehensive musculoskeletal model and its control system that reproduces realistic human movements driven by muscle contraction dynamics. The variations in the anatomic model generate a spectrum of human movements ranging from typical to highly stylistic movements. To do so, we discuss scalable and reliable simulation of anatomical features, robust control of under-actuated dynamical systems based on deep reinforcement learning, and modeling of pose-dependent joint limits. The key technical contribution is a scalable, two-level imitation learning algorithm that can deal with a comprehensive full-body musculoskeletal model with 346 muscles. We demonstrate the predictive simulation of dynamic motor skills under anatomical conditions including bone deformity, muscle weakness, contracture, and the use of a prosthesis. We also simulate various pathological gaits and predictively visualize how orthopedic surgeries improve post-operative gaits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3306346.3322972
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Keywords
Field
DocType
anatomical human modeling, deep reinforcement learning, gait analysis, joint range of motion modeling, locomotion control, musculoskeletal modeling
Contracture,Computer vision,Gait,Motor skill,Simulation,Gait analysis,Dynamical systems theory,Artificial intelligence,Control system,Robust control,Mathematics,Reinforcement learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
4
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.42
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seung-Hwan Lee17718.94
Moon Seok Park2342.51
Kyoung-Min Lee351.43
Jehee Lee41912118.33