new kind of sensors for mocap [2 sensors & maya client]

This video shows a motion capture system prototype, which uses a new kind of flexible optic-mechanic sensors (patent pending)developed at the IIMAS, UNAM .

These sensors are very cheap and easy to construct. The whole system is light, robust ergonomic and it can be connected to the computer by USB, or network (wireless).

In the video you can see about ten sensors on a glove. Each sensor measure the flexion of each join in my hand, the information is collected for the device in the white box and it is sent to the computer via USB. In to the computer my program checks the value reported for each sensor and show them in a graphical window using some markers (left). At the same time the information is sent to another program using a socket based connection. In this case the client is Maya (right window), the data captured from my thumb is mapped to the thumb of the virtual hand.
The 2 first markers at the left of the window represent joins of my thumb, the rest markers aren't connected to the virtual hand in Maya. You can appreciate the smoothness of the movement in the thumb representation, even without filtering data.

At the middle of the video you can see the position of my thumb when I take the mouse to move the cursor.

This step shows that the system is capable of send information to a variety of software such as Maya.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• mocap
• motion
• capture
• flexible
• sensor
• prototype
• Mexico

[FredeGF]

Looks interesting! What kind of sensor is used to measure the movement of the thumb seen last in the video? A strech sensor, or your patented sensor?

Best, Frederik

[parsec3d]

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