NOTATION OF MOVEMENT

Abstract

First, the basic principles of a notation of bodily movements as developed by Noa Eshkol and Abraham Wachmann are summarized. The syntactic elements of this notation are then translated into equations of motion in a set of Cartesian coordinate systems each of which is associated with a movable part of the body. Hence, by a cascade of transforms, any desired (and executable) movement is now describable. A computer program has been written which carries out these transformations, thus, any movement prescribed by a sequence of symbols in Eshkol-Wachmann notation can now be represented by the appropriate trajectories which, in this program, are printed out with a CALCOMP plotter as projections into the three principal planes, the XY-plane, the YZ-plane and the ZX-plane. Numerous illustrations exemplify the rich possibilities of an algorithm which translates symbolic commands into effective movements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 1970
Accession Number
AD0703936

Entities

People

  • Abraham Wachmann
  • Heinz Von Foerster
  • Jean Michl
  • Noa Eshkol
  • Peter Melvin

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Alphabets
  • Automata
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Machines
  • Medical Personnel
  • Molecular Mechanics Methods
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Simulators

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.