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An Inertial Measurement System For Hand And Finger Tracking, Edward Nelson Henderson
An Inertial Measurement System For Hand And Finger Tracking, Edward Nelson Henderson
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
The primary Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) today are the keyboard and mouse. These interfaces do not facilitate a fluid flow of thought and intent from the operator to the computer. A computer mouse provides only 2 Degrees of Freedom (2DOF). Touch interfaces also provide 2DOF, but with multiple points, making the touch interface far more expressive. The hand has 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DOF)by itself. Combined with the motion of the fingers, the hand has the potential to represent a vast array of differing gestures. Hand gestures must be captured before they can be used as a HCI. Fortunately, advances …
Scalable Co-Evolution Of Soft Robot Properties And Gaits, Davis K. Knox
Scalable Co-Evolution Of Soft Robot Properties And Gaits, Davis K. Knox
Honors Theses
The field of soft robotics is very promising; applications in-clude urban search and rescue and covert surveillance, but these projects are not yet realized, partly because of the difficulties in soft robot shape and locomotion design. Be-cause of this, traditional design methods do not prove to be effective. This project attempts to come up with solu-tions to this soft robot design problem; utilizing a genetic algorithm, a computer simulation of Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest,” this project attempts to make soft bodies move. This genetic algorithm evaluates each solution in simulation, and assigns each one a fitness based on distance …
Fitting Model Parameters To Patient Data Automatically Through Evolutionary Computation, Michael Wesley Sagan
Fitting Model Parameters To Patient Data Automatically Through Evolutionary Computation, Michael Wesley Sagan
Master's Theses (2009 -)
The Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center (O.R.E.C) has been studying two conditions which can wreak havoc on the human body's balance control system. The conditions being studied are cerebral palsy (CP) and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS)[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. A greater understanding of postural deficits in children with these conditions and the causes for these conditions may help researchers achieve better interventions and treatments [3]. A tool used to characterize postural stability is a bi-planar postural stability model. This model is designed where 10 parameter values have to be adjusted until the simulated data is statistically the same …
Comparison Of Different Integral Histogram Based Tracking Algorithms, Sriharsha Atluri
Comparison Of Different Integral Histogram Based Tracking Algorithms, Sriharsha Atluri
LSU Master's Theses
Object tracking is an important subject in computer vision with a wide range of applications – security and surveillance, motion-based recognition, driver assistance systems, and human-computer interaction. The proliferation of high-powered computers, the availability of high quality and inexpensive video cameras, and the increasing need for automated video analysis have generated a great deal of interest in object tracking algorithms. Tracking is usually performed in the context of high-level applications that require the location and/or shape of the object in every frame. Research is being conducted in the development of object tracking algorithms over decades and a number of approaches …