RAGA · Robotics Algorithms for Computer Animation
6РП — Действия „Мария Кюри“
- Период
- 2005-02-01 → 2006-07-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 131 224 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- EIF
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Накратко на български
Алгоритми от роботиката се прилагат за планиране на движението на виртуални тълпи, за да избягват препятствия в компютърна среда. Това позволява симулирането на хиляди цифрови герои в реално време, което е полезно за създаването на видеоигри.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Final Activity Report Summary - RAGA (Robotics Algorithms for Computer Animation)
The main objective of the RAGA project was to transfer techniques developed and used by the robotics field in the computer animation domain. Our work focused on the motion planning problem, i.e. on how to move in a given environment while avoiding obstacles. We considered the specific problem of virtual crowds. Virtual crowds were made of numerous digital actors, up to tens of thousands, living in a virtual world simulated on a computer. Considering real-time crowds was a challenge, because a single computer should simulate and render thousands of elements interactively with the user or the spectator. During the RAGA project, we developed tools allowing a user: 1. to design a virtual population for its favourite virtual world by attributing goals to each individual. This process was made easy and intuitive via a small set of high level directives; 2. to simulate the crowd thus designed in real-time; and 3. to render them on desktop PC. Computation times required by each previous element were small enough to allow for an interactive use. As a result, our solutions fit entertainment applications such as video-games. The solution was based on an analysis of the environment, allowing for pre-computing a data structure that was used during the design and simulation stages. The solution was also scalable, in order to be able to consider very large crowds and scenes. The computation resources were distributed in space and time, so that the quality and precision of the simulation were best where the attention of the spectator was focused.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
On one hand, the Computer Animation community focuses on the Virtual Human model and control. Generic methods for interacting with the digital actors are available, allowing an animator to drive them with a set of programmable actions. On the other hand, t he Robotics community has developed techniques and algorithms to increase the autonomy of robots. Particularly, the community is at the origin of the motion planning methods, and more specifically of those based on the Probabilistic Roadmaps Method. Recent ly, combinations of motion planning techniques and computer animation techniques appeared in the related literature, providing a solution for planning the motion of virtual actors. First results are promising but the abilities of these solutions is yet lim ited. The main objective of the RAGA project is to extend the functionalities of such solutions. Particularly, one goal of the proposal is to allow the automatic synthesis of animations in which the virtual actors is achieving simultaneously several tasks, such as reaching and grasping an object of the environment while walking. Of course, the motion of the actor must also satisfy the constraints related to the presence of obstacles of the environment possibly cluttered. I spent a PhD thesis in the Robotics community on the problem of the locomotion planning of virtual actors in cluttered environments. The RAGA project is an opportunity to leverage my Robotics know-how and foster its potential through mastering the unique Computer Animation techniques (and d evices) developed at the Virtual Reality Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). The realisation of the project should open a clear perspective in this research direction, in which I intend to pursue my career as an independent researcher.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · LAUSANNEКоординаторШвейцария
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз