Real-Time Control of a Virtual Human Using Minimal Sensors

We track, in real-time, the position and posture of a human body, using a minimal number of six DOF sensors to capture full body standing postures. We use four sensors to create a good approximation of a human operator's position and posture, and map it on to our articulated computer graphics human model. The unsensed joints are positioned by a fast inverse kinematics algorithm. Our goal is to realistically recreate human postures while minimally encumbering the operator.