Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society (한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지)

Korea Computer Graphics Society (한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회)
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Pose Calibration of Inertial Measurement Units on Joint-Constrained Rigid Bodies

관절체에 고정된 관성 센서의 위치 및 자세 보정 기법

  • Kim, Sinyoung (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Hyejin (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Hee (Graduate School of Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 김신영 (광주과학기술원 정보통신공학부) ;
  • 김혜진 (광주과학기술원 정보통신공학부) ;
  • 이성희 (한국과학기술원 문화기술대학원)
  • Received : 2013.09.30
  • Accepted : 2013.12.09
  • Published : 2013.12.09
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Abstract

A motion capture system is widely used in movies, computer game, and computer animation industries because it allows for creating realistic human motions efficiently. The inertial motion capture system has several advantages over more popular vision-based systems in terms of the required space and cost. However, it suffers from low accuracy due to the relatively high noise levels of the inertial sensors. In particular, the accelerometer used for measuring gravity direction loses the accuracy when the sensor is moving with non-zero linear acceleration. In this paper, we propose a method to remove the linear acceleration component from the accelerometer data in order to improve the accuracy of measuring gravity direction. In addition, we develop a simple method to calibrate the joint axis of a link to which an inertial sensor belongs as well as the position of a sensor with respect to the link. The calibration enables attaching inertial sensors in an arbitrary position and orientation with respect to a link.

모션 캡처 장치는 자연스러운 인체 동작을 생성하는 것을 용이하게 하여 영화, 컴퓨터 게임, 컴퓨터 애니메이션 등 여러 분야에서 폭넓게 사용되고 있다. 그 중 관성 센서를 활용한 모션 캡처 장치는 보다 널리 사용되고 있는 광학 모션 캡처 장비에 비해 소요 공간과 비용 측면에서 이점을 가지고 있으나 비교적 높은 노이즈로 인해 측정 결과의 정밀도가 떨어지는 단점이 있다. 특히 관성 센서에 포함되어 중력 방향을 계측하는 가속도 센서는 센서의 선형 가속 운동으로 인해 중력 방향의 계측 정밀도가 떨어지는 문제를 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 관절체에 부착된 센서의 자세 측정 정확도를 높이기 위해 가속도 센서에서 선형 가속도 성분을 제거하는 기법을 제안한다. 아울러 센서가 부착되어 있는 관절체의 회전축 및 센서의 부착 위치를 보정하는 기법을 소개한다. 이 보정 기법은 관성 센서가 관절체의 임의의 위치와 방향으로 부착되는 것을 가능하게 한다.

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