Active Animations of Reduced Deformable Models with Environment Interactions
Abstract
We present an efficient spacetime optimization method to automatically generate animations for a general volumetric, elastically deformable body. Our approach can model the interactions between the body and the environment and automatically generate active animations. We model the frictional contact forces using contact invariant optimization and the fluid drag forces using a simplified model. To handle complex objects, we use a reduced deformable model and present a novel hybrid optimizer to search for the local minima efficiently. This allows us to use long-horizon motion planning to automatically generate animations such as walking, jumping, swimming, and rolling. We evaluate the approach on different shapes and animations, including deformable body navigation and combining with an open-loop controller for realtime forward simulation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jun 30, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1145/3197565
Entities
People
- Dinesh Manocha
- Zherong Pan
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- National Science Foundation
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill