Animation Theatre piece on Behavior Planning

Lau, Manfred and Kuffner, James and Mahler, Moshe (2007) Animation Theatre piece on Behavior Planning. UNSPECIFIED.

Abstract

This animation shows the travails of an explorer, skateboarder, dancer, and a herd of babies as they navigate an obstacle course. Their motions are generated automatically using our "Behavior Planning" framework. This framework uses a combination of behavior selection and path planning techniques along with a small number of pre-processed motion capture clips. The motions of the obstacles are pre-specified, and incorporated into the planner. In addition, we can use our "Precomputed Search Trees" technique to generate these motions much more efficiently than before.