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Pair skating
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Skating with a Force Controlled Quadrupedal Robot
Traditional legged robots are capable of traversing challenging terrain, but lack of energy efficiency when compared to wheeled systems operating on flat environments. The combination of both locomotion domains overcomes the trade-off between mobility and ...
2018Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics
Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey
Recent work suggests that jumping locomotion in combination with a gliding phase can be used as an effective mobility principle in robotics. Compared to pure jumping without a gliding phase, the potential benefits of hybrid jump-gliding locomotion includes ...
Iop Publishing Ltd2015Automatic measurement of key ski jumping phases and temporal events with a wearable system
Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Julien Chardonnens, Benoît Le Callennec
Abstract We propose a new method, based on inertial sensors, to automatically measure at high frequency the durations of the main phases of ski jumping (i.e. take-off release, take-off, and early flight). The kinematics of the ski jumping movement were rec ...
Taylor & Francis2012Bridging the Gap between Detection and Tracking for 3D Human Motion Recovery
The aim of this thesis is to build a system able to automatically and robustly track human motion in 3–D starting from monocular input. To this end two approaches are introduced, which tackle two different types of motion: The first is useful to analyze ac ...
EPFL2010Recovery of the locomotor function after prolonged microgravity exposure. I. Head-trunk movement and locomotor equilibrium during various tasks
Recovery of locomotor function was investigated in seven cosmonauts exposed to microgravity for 6 months. Crew members executed a locomotor task with visual cues (eyes open, EO) and without them (eyes closed, EC). The locomotor task consisted of ascending ...
2004Inverse kinematics techniques of the interactive posture control of articulated figures
The context of this thesis is the interactive manipulation of complex articulated figures by means of geometric constraints (here called tasks), for the purpose of posture control and design. The goal is to determine a posture satisfying a set of prescribe ...
EPFL2001Rollers et skaters: les "hors-la-loi de la pesanteur" - sociologie du hors-piste urbain
Anthropological research on the spatial and social practices of the inline rollers and skateboarders in the public space and the streets (Case study in Switzerland and France). ...
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