Behavioral Control for Real-Time Simulated Human Agents

A system for controlling the behaviors of an interactive human-like agent, and executing them in real-time, is presented. It relies on an underlying model of continuous behavior, as well as a discrete scheduling mechanism for changing behavior over time. A multiprocessing framework executes the behaviors and renders the motion of the agents in real-time. Finally we discuss the current state of our implementation and some areas of future work. 1 Introduction As rich and complex interactive 3D virtual environments become practical for a variety of applications, from engineering design evaluation to hazard simulation, there is a need to represent their inhabitants as purposeful, interactive, human-like agents. It is not a great leap of the imagination to think of a product designer creating a virtual prototype of a piece of equipment, placing that equipment in a virtual workspace, then populating the workspace with virtual human operators who will perform their assigned tasks (operatin..