EFFICIENT INVERSE KINEMATICS ALGORITHM BASED ON CONFORMAL GEOMETRIC ALGEBRA - Using Reconfigurable Hardware

Dietmar Hildenbrand, Holger Lange, Florian Stock, Andreas Koch

2008

Abstract

This paper presents a very efficient approach for algorithms developed based on conformal geometric algebra using reconfigurable hardware. We use the inverse kinematics of the arm of a virtual human as an example, but we are convinced that this approach can be used in a wide field of computer animation applications. We describe the original algorithm on a very high geometrically intuitive level as well as the resulting optimized algorithm based on symbolic calculations of a computer algebra system. The main focus then is to demonstrate our approach for the hardware implementation of this algorithm leading to a very efficient implementation.

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Hildenbrand D., Lange H., Stock F. and Koch A. (2008). EFFICIENT INVERSE KINEMATICS ALGORITHM BASED ON CONFORMAL GEOMETRIC ALGEBRA - Using Reconfigurable Hardware . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-20-3, pages 300-307. DOI: 10.5220/0001094603000307


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp08,
author={Dietmar Hildenbrand and Holger Lange and Florian Stock and Andreas Koch},
title={EFFICIENT INVERSE KINEMATICS ALGORITHM BASED ON CONFORMAL GEOMETRIC ALGEBRA - Using Reconfigurable Hardware},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={300-307},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001094603000307},
isbn={978-989-8111-20-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - EFFICIENT INVERSE KINEMATICS ALGORITHM BASED ON CONFORMAL GEOMETRIC ALGEBRA - Using Reconfigurable Hardware
SN - 978-989-8111-20-3
AU - Hildenbrand D.
AU - Lange H.
AU - Stock F.
AU - Koch A.
PY - 2008
SP - 300
EP - 307
DO - 10.5220/0001094603000307