ADAPT: The Agent Development and Prototyping Testbed

We present ADAPT, a flexible platform for designing and authoring functional, purposeful human characters in a rich virtual environment. Our framework incorporates character animation, navigation, and behavior with modular interchangeable components to produce narrative scenes. The animation system...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 2014-07, Vol.20 (7), p.1035-1047
Main Authors: Shoulson, Alexander, Marshak, Nathan, Kapadia, Mubbasir, Badler, Norman I
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Computer Graphics
Computer Simulation
Humans
Image Enhancement - methods
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods
Imaging, Three-Dimensional - methods
Models, Biological
Pilot Projects
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Software
Whole Body Imaging - methods
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Summary:We present ADAPT, a flexible platform for designing and authoring functional, purposeful human characters in a rich virtual environment. Our framework incorporates character animation, navigation, and behavior with modular interchangeable components to produce narrative scenes. The animation system provides locomotion, reaching, gaze tracking, gesturing, sitting, and reactions to external physical forces, and can easily be extended with more functionality due to a decoupled, modular structure. The navigation component allows characters to maneuver through a complex environment with predictive steering for dynamic obstacle avoidance. Finally, our behavior framework allows a user to fully leverage a character's animation and navigation capabilities when authoring both individual decision-making and complex interactions between actors using a centralized, event-driven model.
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2013.251