On‐line motion blending for real‐time locomotion generation

In this paper, we present an integrated framework of on‐line motion blending for locomotion generation. We first provide a novel scheme for incremental timewarping, which always guarantees that the time goes forward. Combining the idea of motion blending with that of posture rearrangement, we introduce a motion transition graph to address on‐line motion blending and transition simultaneously. Guided by a stream of motion specifications, our motion synthesis scheme moves from node to node in an on‐line manner while blending a motion at a node and generating a transition motion at an edge. For smooth on‐line motion transition, we also attach a set of example transition motions to an edge. To represent similar postures consistently, we exploit the inter‐frame coherency embedded in the input motion specification. Finally, we provide a comprehensive solution to on‐line motion retargeting by integrating existing techniques. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.