Integrated Modeling of Road Environments for Driving Simulation

Carlos Campos, João Miguel Leitão, António Fernando Coelho

2015

Abstract

Virtual environments for driving simulations aimed to scientific purposes require three-dimensional road models that must obey to detailed standards of specification and realism. The creation of road models with this level of quality requires previous definition of the road networks and the road paths. Each road path is usually obtained through the dedicated work of roadway design specialists, resulting in a long time consuming process. The driving simulation for scientific purposes also requires a semantic description of all elements within the environment in order to provide the parameterization of actors during the simulation and the production of simulation reports. This paper presents a methodology to automatically generate road environments suitable to the implementation of driving simulation experiences. This methodology integrates every required step for modelling road environments, from the determination of interchanges nodes to the generation of the geometric and the semantic models. The human supervisor can interact with the model generation process at any stage, in order to meet every specific requirement of the experimental work. The proposed methodology reduces workload involved in the initial specification of the road network and significantly reduces the use of specialists for preparing the road paths of all roadways. The generated semantic description allows procedural placing of actors in the simulated environment. The models are suitable for conducting scientific work in a driving simulator.

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Campos C., Leitão J. and Coelho A. (2015). Integrated Modeling of Road Environments for Driving Simulation . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-087-1, pages 70-80. DOI: 10.5220/0005308600700080


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@conference{grapp15,
author={Carlos Campos and João Miguel Leitão and António Fernando Coelho},
title={Integrated Modeling of Road Environments for Driving Simulation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={70-80},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005308600700080},
isbn={978-989-758-087-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Integrated Modeling of Road Environments for Driving Simulation
SN - 978-989-758-087-1
AU - Campos C.
AU - Leitão J.
AU - Coelho A.
PY - 2015
SP - 70
EP - 80
DO - 10.5220/0005308600700080