HANDLING SPATIAL VAGUENESS IN VIRTUAL AGENT CONTROL

Spyros Vosinakis, Nikos Pelekis, Yannis Theodoridis, Themis Panayiotopoulos

2007

Abstract

Virtual agents are an important element of virtual environments that enhance their believability and autonomy. Nowadays, there are a number of architectures and languages for designing virtual agents and scripting their control process, but the majority of them cannot cope with the vagueness that characterizes a designer’s description of a location or direction using natural language, and, thus, fail to demonstrate complex spatial behavior in dynamic environments. We propose a framework for handling spatial vagueness in virtual agent control, which uses binary fuzzy relations to represent vague location descriptions and a fuzzy rule-based system for the agent control. We present a prototype implementation and a case study, in which the proposed framework is successfully used for a virtual agent’s locomotion in a dynamic environment.

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Vosinakis S., Pelekis N., Theodoridis Y. and Panayiotopoulos T. (2007). HANDLING SPATIAL VAGUENESS IN VIRTUAL AGENT CONTROL . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-72-6, pages 75-78. DOI: 10.5220/0002084900750078


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp07,
author={Spyros Vosinakis and Nikos Pelekis and Yannis Theodoridis and Themis Panayiotopoulos},
title={HANDLING SPATIAL VAGUENESS IN VIRTUAL AGENT CONTROL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={75-78},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002084900750078},
isbn={978-972-8865-72-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP,
TI - HANDLING SPATIAL VAGUENESS IN VIRTUAL AGENT CONTROL
SN - 978-972-8865-72-6
AU - Vosinakis S.
AU - Pelekis N.
AU - Theodoridis Y.
AU - Panayiotopoulos T.
PY - 2007
SP - 75
EP - 78
DO - 10.5220/0002084900750078