Animation Theatre piece on Behavior Planning

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.

Manfred Lau and James Kuffner. Behavior Planning for Character Animation, ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Los Angeles, CA, 2005. [BiBTeX]

Manfred Lau and James Kuffner. Precomputed Search Trees: Planning for Interactive Goal-Driven Animation, ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Vienna, Austria, 2006. [BiBTeX]