Improving Motion Estimation Accuracy in Underdetermined Problems Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks with Inverse Kinematics and a Digital Human Model
Yuya Hishikawa, Takashi Kusaka, Yoshifumi Tanaka, Yukiyasu Domae, Naoki Shirakura, Natsuki Yamanobe, Yui Endo, Mitsunori Tada, Natsuki Miyata, Takayuki Tanaka · Electronics · 2025
With the rapid technological advancements in wearable devices, motion and health management have significantly improved, enabling the measurement of various biometric data with compact equipment. Our research focuses on motion measurement but, in general, full-body motion estimation requires motion capture systems or multiple inertial sensors, making it necessary to directly measure movement itself. In this study, we propose estimating full-body posture using inverse kinematics based on trunk posture and limb-end information collected through wearable devices. To enhance estimation accuracy in this underdetermined problem, we employ Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), which efficiently learn using physical laws as a loss function, along with a high-precision inverse kinematics model of a digital human. Through this approach, we enable high-accuracy full-body posture estimation even with wearable devices in underdetermined scenarios.