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Human learning is a complex phenomenon requiring flexibility to adapt existing brain function and precision in selecting new neurophysiological activities to drive desired behavior. These two attributes -- flexibility and selection -- must…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-28 Danielle S. Bassett , Nicholas F. Wymbs , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha , Jean M. Carlson , Scott T. Grafton

We introduce a novel musculoskeletal model of a dog, procedurally generated from accurate 3D muscle meshes. Accompanying this model is a motion capture-based locomotion task compatible with a variety of control algorithms, as well as an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Vittorio La Barbera , Steven Bohez , Leonard Hasenclever , Yuval Tassa , John R. Hutchinson

Human motion generation involves creating natural sequences of human body poses, widely used in gaming, virtual reality, and human-computer interaction. It aims to produce lifelike virtual characters with realistic movements, enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiayi Zhao , Dongdong Weng , Qiuxin Du , Zeyu Tian

Machine learning is a field of computer science that builds algorithms that learn. In many cases, machine learning algorithms are used to recreate a human ability like adding a caption to a photo, driving a car, or playing a game. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Ruth Fong , Walter Scheirer , David Cox

In this work, we develop an automated method to generate 3D human walking motion in simulation which is comparable to real-world human motion. At the core, our work leverages the ability of deep reinforcement learning methods to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Visak Kumar

Collective behavior in animals has long been modeled through self-propelled particle models, which reproduce striking group-level phenomena through abstract interaction forces. Yet these models are fundamentally descriptive: they leave open…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Vito Mengers , Bao Duc Cao , Oliver Brock

Rapid progress in deep reinforcement learning has made it increasingly feasible to train controllers for high-dimensional humanoid bodies. However, methods that use pure reinforcement learning with simple reward functions tend to produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Josh Merel , Yuval Tassa , Dhruva TB , Sriram Srinivasan , Jay Lemmon , Ziyu Wang , Greg Wayne , Nicolas Heess

This paper formulates a generalized classification algorithm with an application to classifying (or `decoding') neural activity in the brain. Medical doctors and researchers have long been interested in how brain activity correlates to body…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Cary Humber , Kazufumi Ito , Chad Bouton

Human motion prediction is an essential component for enabling closer human-robot collaboration. The task of accurately predicting human motion is non-trivial. It is compounded by the variability of human motion, both at a skeletal level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Mohammad Samin Yasar , Tariq Iqbal

Robotic motion generation methods using machine learning have been studied in recent years. Bilateral control-based imitation learning can imitate human motions using force information. By means of this method, variable speed motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuki Saigusa , Ayumu Sasagawa , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Human motion generation aims to generate natural human pose sequences and shows immense potential for real-world applications. Substantial progress has been made recently in motion data collection technologies and generation methods, laying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Dongwoo Ro , Hai Ci , Jinlu Zhang , Jiaxin Shi , Feng Gao , Qi Tian , Yizhou Wang

While musculoskeletal humanoids have the advantages of various biomimetic structures, it is difficult to accurately control the body, which is challenging to model. Although various learning-based control methods have been developed so far,…

Among the infinite number of possible movements that can be produced, humans are commonly assumed to choose those that optimize criteria such as minimizing movement time, subject to certain movement constraints like signal-dependent and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-21 Florian Fischer , Miroslav Bachinski , Markus Klar , Arthur Fleig , Jörg Müller

Human locomotion emerges from high-dimensional neuromuscular control, making predictive musculoskeletal simulation challenging. We present a physiology-informed reinforcement-learning framework that constrains control using muscle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ilseung Park , Eunsik Choi , Jangwhan Ahn , Jooeun Ahn

When human participants repeatedly encounter a velocity-dependent force field that distorts their movement trajectories, they adapt their motor behavior to recover straight trajectories. Computational models suggest that adaptation to a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Etienne Moullet , Agnès Roby-Brami , Emmanuel Guigon

Recent work has explored a range of model families for human motion generation, including Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and diffusion-based models. Despite their differences, many methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 David Björkstrand , Tiesheng Wang , Lars Bretzner , Josephine Sullivan

Motor control is a set of time-varying muscle excitations which generate desired motions for a biomechanical system. Muscle excitations cannot be directly measured from live subjects. An alternative approach is to estimate muscle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Amir H. Abdi , Pramit Saha , Praneeth Srungarapu , Sidney Fels

Text-driven human motion generation has recently attracted considerable attention, allowing models to generate human motions based on textual descriptions. However, current methods neglect the influence of human attributes-such as age,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xinghan Wang , Kun Xu , Fei Li , Cao Sheng , Jiazhong Yu , Yadong Mu

Uncovering the fundamental neural correlates of biological intelligence, developing mathematical models, and conducting computational simulations are critical for advancing new paradigms in artificial intelligence (AI). In this study, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jie Su , Fang Cai , Shu-Kuo Zhao , Xin-Yi Wang , Tian-Yi Qian , Da-Hui Wang , Bo Hong

The motor control problem involves determining the time-varying muscle activation trajectories required to accomplish a given movement. Muscle redundancy makes motor control a challenging task: there are many possible activation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Najeeb Khan , Ian Stavness