Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
IEEE
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Information Science
RAS ID
6113
Abstract
Physically based animation of virtual characters is an attractive technology for computer games. It enables characters to dynamically react to interactions with the environment. Existing dynamic simulation controllers are often complex to understand and manipulate, and so are of limited use for animators. This paper presents an extended spline-based control strategy similar to splines used in standard keyframe animation techniques. Unlike existing dynamic control strategies, this allows animators to modify the control system parameters in a manner similar to traditional kinematic animation techniques. A genetic algorithm is employed to produce the initial control parameters for the desired gait, and extend the parameters to enable sensory feedback. The controllers are simulated in a 3D environment and demonstrated for bipedal, tripedal and snake-like characters.
DOI
10.1109/CIG.2008.5035651
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Boeing, A. (2008). Morphology Independent Dynamic Locomotion Control for Virtual Characters. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games. CIG '08 (pp. 283-289). Perth Western Australia. IEEE. Available here
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