Paper ID: 2211.08206

Phase Distribution in Probabilistic Movement Primitives, Representing Time Variability for the Recognition and Reproduction of Human Movements

Vittorio Lippi, Raphael Deimel

Probabilistic Movement Primitives (ProMPs) are a widely used representation of movements for human-robot interaction. They also facilitate the factorization of temporal and spatial structure of movements. In this work we investigate a method to temporally align observations so that when learning ProMPs, information in the spatial structure of the observed motion is maximized while maintaining a smooth phase velocity. We apply the method on recordings of hand trajectories in a two-dimensional reaching task. A system for simultaneous recognition of movement and phase is proposed and performance of movement recognition and movement reproduction is discussed.

Submitted: Nov 15, 2022