Virtual environment construction for driving simulator

Author

Yasuda, Takami ; Suzuki, Toshio ; Yokoi, Shigeki ; Toriwaki, Jun-ichiro

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Sci., Nagoya Univ., Japan

fYear

1994

fDate

18-20 Jul 1994

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

55

Abstract

This paper describes a new interactive software especially designed for making driving simulator´s virtual environment on a current high-performance graphic workstation. A technique is presented to construct a virtual town interactively and to drive the town real time. This system makes it possible to generate virtual environment such as roads, buildings, traffic lights, signs, traffic flow and so on for the virtual driving in the town. The system consists of three functions: road generation, virtual town construction and driving simulation

Keywords

interactive systems; traffic engineering computing; virtual reality; buildings; driving simulator; high-performance graphic workstation; interactive software; roads; traffic flow; traffic lights; traffic signs; virtual environment construction; virtual town; Buildings; Cities and towns; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Design engineering; Roads; Switches; Traffic control; Urban planning; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Communication, 1994. RO-MAN '94 Nagoya, Proceedings., 3rd IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2002-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.1994.365957

Filename

365957