Animation

Timeline

1. Physics-based

1.1 equations of the motion

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1.2 heuristics: symmetry, stability

• pros: [natural motion]
• cons:
  • can not be broadly applied: 1)balance various objectives 2) tune process needed for each task
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1.3 biologically accurate actuators (muscle)

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2. Physics + Data-Driven (Motion Clip/ Finite State Machine)

• use as a tracking objective
• cons: use unstructured motion datasets
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[extension: Deep Reinforcement Learning]

2.1 motion planner: select a suitable motion clip for the character to track

• cons:
  • challenging
  • a limited collection of example motions
  • deviate from the reference motion
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2.2.1 motion planner + phase variable