An Intelligent Agent Framework in VRML Worlds

Panayiotopoulos, Themis; Katsirelos, G.; Vosinakis, Spyros; Kousidou, S.

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4840-5_3

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“…During the past few years, the need for combining Artificial Intelligence with Virtual Reality has become obvious [10,11]. Virtual Reality systems without an underlying intelligent control mechanism may be impressive but are short of any significant research potential, while on the other hand, AI applications and systems without an illustrative visualization mechanism are hard to approach, comprehend and aid in research.…”

Section: Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent research in University of Piraeus has led to a framework integrating VRML as a virtual environment representation provider with Artificial Intelligence implemented through an intelligent agent system [10].…”

Section: Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…VAL is a means to avoid the complications mentioned above. VAL was initially developed as a tool to define agent's abilities for [10], but can be extended towards a complete agent language. VAL based systems provide tools for producing implementation specific agent representation data from VAL code.…”

Section: Motivation and Specifics Of Valmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards a Virtual Reality Intelligent Agent Language

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Anastassakis

2000

Advances in Informatics

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Towards a Virtual Reality Intelligent Agent Language

Panayiotopoulos

Anastassakis

2000

Advances in Informatics

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“…We have worked towards the introduction of logic programming in virtual worlds and we designed and implemented an intelligent agent framework in VRML environments [26]. After a few years, we abandoned the Java / VRML platform and started using C++ and OpenGL to build a generic tool for rendering and animating virtual agents, a research, which lead to SimHuman.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Tool for Constructing 3D Environments with Virtual Agents

Vosinakis

Panayiotopoulos

2005

Multimed Tools Appl

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Abstract. The use of Virtual Environments as a user interface is essential for certain types of applications, both in education and entertainment. These worlds are even more attractive for the user when they are neither static nor pre-scripted, but have dynamic characteristics and are populated by autonomous entities, also called virtual agents. There has been a lot of research concerning visualization, animation and behavior of virtual agents, but there are no generic architectures, methodologies and tools for the development of intelligent virtual environments, i.e. 3D environments with autonomous virtual agents. In this paper, we present SimHuman, a tool for the construction of virtual worlds with autonomous entities, targeted for a specific group of applications, such as simple simulation systems, virtual environments, educational applications, multimedia presentations, etc. It consists of a programming library and two utilities and it is highly dynamic and configurable, as it is not based on fixed scenes and models. It has embedded characteristics such as Inverse Kinematics, Physically Based Modeling, Collision Detection and Response, and Vision. SimHuman incorporates some important features for designing and building virtual environments and turns out to be an effective tool for interactive 3D applications with virtual agents.

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