Physics-based Character Controllers Using Conditional VAEs

doi:10.1145/3528223.3530067

Physics-based Character Controllers Using Conditional VAEs

2022-07-22

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DOI：10.1145/3528223.3530067

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High-quality motion capture datasets are now publicly available, and researchers have used them to create kinematics-based controllers that can generate plausible and diverse human motions without conditioning on specific goals (i.e., a task-agnostic generative model). In this paper, we present an algorithm to build such controllers for physically simulated characters having many degrees of freedom. Our physics-based controllers are learned by using conditional VAEs, which can perform a variety of behaviors that are similar to motions in the training dataset. The controllers are robust enough to generate more than a few minutes of motion without conditioning on specific goals and to allow many complex downstream tasks to be solved efficiently. To show the effectiveness of our method, we demonstrate controllers learned from several different motion capture databases and use them to solve a number of downstream tasks that are challenging to learn controllers that generate natural-looking motions from scratch. We also perform ablation studies to demonstrate the importance of the elements of the algorithm.

Keywords:

Character Animation

Physics-based Simulation and Control

Motion Capture

Reinforcement Learning

Variational Autoencoder

Behavior Cloning

Physics-based Character Controllers Using Conditional VAEs

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