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Animal locomotion is a core property, and it frequently serves as the inspiration or starting point for the design of artificial motion systems, particularly when an animal has unusually effective or efficient locomotion.
A deeper comprehension of the fundamental principles governing animal motion will help us better understand how to develop bionic robots, which is an important topic of research in the realm of robots. Accurately quantifying animal movement is essential to understanding their exceptional mobility.
By recording, replaying, digitally processing, and analyzing the motion information, motion capture technology based on video sequence analysis could make it easier to collect quantitative data on animal locomotor behaviors, with the desired characteristics of little restriction in the capturing process of the animal locomotion.
A key element in the collection of useful and precise quantified data is the association between the form and motion traits of various animals and the layout pattern of the motion capture system.
Animals have a wide range of body shapes and associated locomotion types to enable them to adapt to a variety of complex natural environments, including swimming in lakes and oceans (fish, sharks), walking or running on land (elephants, horses, geckos), and flying in the sky (birds, moths, mosquitoes).
Researchers have created a variety of motion capture devices to examine the movement of distinctly different animals with regard to morphologies and mobility in order to fulfil the needs of a wide range of animal research.
There are many other motion capture techniques for large-scale objects, such as multiplayer dancing, formation flying of unmanned aerial vehicles, etc.
The Global Animal Locomotion camera market accounted for $XX Billion in 2023 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
The resulting work marked a turning point in Eadweard Muybridge’s landscape photography career and served as the starting point for the first formal scientific investigation of motion through photography.
Muybridge and Penn collaborated to create “Animal Locomotion,” which revolutionized the way we think about photography, animal and human movement, and even time.
More than 130 years later, Muybridge’s work is still regarded as a breakthrough in photography and the study of movement, in addition to his own legacy as an eccentric.
This method is primarily employed in expansive settings like museums and retail centers. However, in-depth research on the multi-camera layout optimization method has not been done in the context of motion capture of small animals.
Miller et al. utilized eight high-speed cameras with an annular architecture to successfully capture and map out the wing trajectory of mosquitoes, which is an example of a flying object whose range of motion is significantly greater than its size.
By using three sets of high-speed cameras with an orthogonal spatial arrangement, Zheng et al. also achieved motion capture of small-sized hawk moths.
However, more cameras or a single orthogonal architecture are often used in multi-camera systems to perform motion capture.
