Experience, Context, and the Visual Perception of Human Movement.

Why are human observers particularly sensitive to human movement? Seven experiments examined the roles of visual experience and motor processes in human movement perception by comparing visual sensitivities to point-light displays of familiar, unusual, and impossible gaits across gait-speed and identity discrimination tasks. In both tasks, visual sensitivity to physically possible gaits was superior to visual sensitivity to physically impossible gaits, supporting perception-action coupling theories of human movement perception. Visual experience influenced walker-identity perception but not gait-speed discrimination. Thus, both motor experience and visual experience define visual sensitivity to human movement. An ecological perspective can be used to define the conditions necessary for experience-dependent sensitivity to human movement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Flynn Effect and U.S. Policies: The Impact of Rising IQ Scores on American Society Via Mental Retardation Diagnoses.

Over the last century, IQ scores have been steadily rising, a phenomenon dubbed the Flynn effect. Because of the Flynn effect, IQ tests are periodically renormed, making them harder. Given that eligibility for mental retardation (MR) services relies heavily on IQ scores, renormed tests could have a significant impact on MR placements. In longitudinal IQ records from 9 sites around the country, students in the borderline and mild MR range lost an average of 5.6 points when retested on a renormed test and were more likely to be classified MR compared with peers retested on the same test. The magnitude of the effect is large and affects national policies on education, social security, the death penalty, and the military. This paper reports the perceptions of professionals as they relate to IQ score fluctuations in normal, borderline, and/or MR populations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Generation of adaptive gait patterns for quadruped robot with CPG network including motor dynamic model

This paper describes the generation of adaptive gait patterns using new Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) including motor dynamic models for a quadruped robot under various environments. The CPGs act as the flexible oscillators of the joints and adjust joint angles to required values. The CPGs are interconnected with each other and sets of their coupling parameters are adjusted by a genetic algorithm so that the quadruped robot can realize stable and adequate gait patterns. Generation of gait patterns results in the formation of the CPG networks suitable for the formation of not only a straight walking pattern but also of rotating gait patterns. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CPG networks are effective for the automatic adjustment of the adaptive gait patterns for the tested quadruped robot under various environments. Furthermore, the target tracking control based on image processing is achieved by combining the general gait patterns. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 155(1): 35–43, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.20225     

基于特征融合的步态识别算法研究

根据人体步态变化特点,提出一种基于特征融合和神经网络的步态识别算法。首先采用时域差分法对运动人体轮廓进行分割,然后分别提取空间特征和频率特征,将两步态特征融合在一起,从而实现步态的分类和识别。在CASIA步态数据库上进行仿真实验,仿真结果表明,该方法不仅克服了单一特征提取方法存在的缺陷,同时提高了步态识别正确率。     

管道内壁四足爬壁机器人的运动学与步态规划

研究用于检测气体绝缘金属封闭开关（GIS）内部的负压吸附管道内壁四足爬壁机器人. 分别对机器人的腿部和机身进行运动学分析,采用改进的牛顿迭代法解决机身正运动学求解困难的问题. 对机器人沿管道轴向和圆周方向的爬壁运动进行步态规划,提出运动过程零冲击的轨迹规划方法. 使用Adams进行运动仿真,并在四足爬壁机器人样机上进行水平和垂直管道的全方位爬壁实验. 结果表明：机器人的运动轨迹与所规划的步态一致,运动过程中速度与加速度无突变,运动平稳,无明显冲击,运动学模型的正确性和所规划步态的合理性得到验证. 在GIS管道的实际检测应用中,实现机器人在不同工况下的平稳爬壁运动与检测.     

基于加权朴素贝叶斯分类算法的学生成绩决策分析

在已有上机实验数据的基础上,使用综合的权值计算方法,将加权朴素贝叶斯分类算法应用到学生成绩分析与预测中．实验结果显示,对于学生的成绩分类,使用综合权值的结果优于传统权值的分类结果,表明使用文中的加权贝叶斯方法分析学生成绩是切实可行的．     

基于约束满足的多目标双足机器人动态步态参数优化*

目前的步态优化算法仅仅实现了对单一目标的优化,把双足机器人步态优化看做是多目标优化问题,构建了衡量稳定性、能量消耗、步行速度三个目标评价函数。考虑到直接对多个目标加权求和的方法不能很好地处理多目标问题,提出一种新的基于约束满足的多目标步态参数优化算法,其思想是把基于惩罚函数的SPEA2(strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm2 )应用到多目标双足机器人动态步态参数优化问题上,规划出了同时满足这三个目标的动态优化步态。通过仿真实验表明了算法的有效性。     

Online gait programming of humanoid walking via NMPC

In order to satisfy the requirement of realtime gait programming of humanoid walking with foot rotation,a kind of modified Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) scheme was proposed. Based on setting suitable kinetic and kinematic virtual constraints of Single Support Phase (SSP) and three subphases of Double Support Phase (DSP) ,complex realtime gait programming problem was simplified to four online NMPC dynamic optimization problems. A numerical approach was proposed to transform the dynamical optimization problem to the finite dimensional static optimization problem which can be solved by Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) . It can be concluded from simulation that using this method on BIP model can realize online gait programming of dynamic walking with foot rotation and the biped stability can be satisfied such that there is no sliding during walking.     

一种基于步幅长度及频域特征的步态识别方法

步态识别作为一种较新的生物认证技术有其独特优势,它旨在根据人行进过程中的行走步态模式来识别其身份.提出一种基于步幅长度及频域特征的步态识别方法:首先采用背景减除算法实现运动人体检测,并根据步幅长度变化特征进行周期分割.然后提取步幅长度极值结合关键帧的频幅均值构成五维特征向量,最后用标准模式分类器在中科院自动化所提供的CASIA步态数据库中进行实验,在降低了算法复杂度的同时,获得了令人鼓舞的实验结果.