Insertion of an articulated human into a networked virtual environment

Author

Pratt, David R. ; Barham, Paul T. ; Locke, John ; Zyda, Michael J. ; Eastman, Bryant ; Moore, Timothy ; Biggers, Klaus ; Douglass, Robert ; Jacobsen, Stephen ; Hollick, Michael ; Granieri, John ; Ko, Hyeongseok ; Badler, Norman I.

Author_Institution

Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

7-9 Dec. 1994

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

90

Abstract

Most distributed interactive simulation (DIS) technology demonstrated in recent years has focused on vehicle interaction. The dismounted infantryman-the individual soldier-has been largely ignored or represented by static models. In six weeks of development, the Naval Postgraduate School, SARCOS Inc., and University of Pennsylvania, under Army Research Laboratory sponsorship, demonstrated the insertion of a fully articulated human figure into a DIS environment. This paper describes the system architecture.<>

Keywords

digital simulation; interactive systems; military computing; simulation; virtual reality; Army Research Laboratory; Naval Postgraduate School; SARCOS; University of Pennsylvania; articulated human simulation; distributed interactive simulation; infantryman; networked virtual environment; soldier; system architecture; Computational modeling; Computer science; Humans; Jacobian matrices; Large-scale systems; Protocols; Spatial databases; Vehicles; Virtual environment; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AI, Simulation, and Planning in High Autonomy Systems, 1994. Distributed Interactive Simulation Environments., Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Gainesville, FL, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6440-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIHAS.1994.390496

Filename

390496