mom-for-MIMo

Adding a mom to the MIMo platform.

This repository contains the supplementay code for the masters thesis called Adding a Caregiver to a Baby Simulator (2026). The goal of the thesis was to expand the MIMo simulator by adding a caregiver model the infant can interact with.

Structure

• mom_mimoEnv contains scenes, models of adults and infants and textures derived from MIMo.
• motion_retargeting contains files neccessary for applying movement exported from motion capture to the models in the simulation
• xml_work contains files for resizing the mother model from mom_mimoEnv
• generate_updated_model_w_mocap_equalities.py runs the resizing process from the previous folder and creates also all the necessary XML files needed for motion retargeting related to the resized model
• run_motion_retargeting.py runs the simulation scenarios and saves the selected outputs

How to use the contents of this repository

1. Install the BabyBench (2025) MIMo environment, follow the official installation guide
2. Download this repository
3. To run the prepared mom1 simulation, execute python run_motion_retargeting.py
4. For other interaction scenarios and simulation results, see the our Google Drive