{"id":192751,"date":"2024-07-10T20:27:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/a-new-model-to-plan-and-control-the-movements-of-humanoids-in-3d-environments"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:27:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:27:43","slug":"a-new-model-to-plan-and-control-the-movements-of-humanoids-in-3d-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/a-new-model-to-plan-and-control-the-movements-of-humanoids-in-3d-environments","title":{"rendered":"A new model to plan and control the movements of humanoids in 3D environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWlqSQlRZ9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Humanoids, robotic or virtual systems with body structures that resemble the human body, have a wide range of real-world applications. As their limbs and bodies mirror those of humans, they could be made to reproduce a wide range of human movements, such as walking, crouching, jumping, swimming and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Computationally generating realistic motions for virtual humanoid characters could have interesting implications for the development of video games, animated films, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/virtual+reality\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virtual reality<\/a> (VR) experiences, and other media content. Yet the environments portrayed in video games and animations are often highly dynamic and complex, which can make planning motions for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/humanoids\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">humanoids<\/a> introduced in these environments more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at NVIDIA Research in Israel recently introduced PlaMo (Plan and Move), a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/new+computational+approach\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new computational approach<\/a> to plan the movements of humanoids in complex, 3D, physically simulated worlds. Their approach, presented in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2406.18237\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server, consists of a scene-aware path <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/planner\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">planner<\/a> and a robust control policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanoids, robotic or virtual systems with body structures that resemble the human body, have a wide range of real-world applications. As their limbs and bodies mirror those of humans, they could be made to reproduce a wide range of human movements, such as walking, crouching, jumping, swimming and so on. Computationally generating realistic motions for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,31,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-policy","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}