Steering behaviors for autonomous vehicles in virtual environments

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 155-162

  Wang, Hongling ^a   Kearney, Joseph K ^a   Cremer, James ^a   Willemsen, Peter ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agent behavior; Steering behavior; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENT BEHAVIOR; STEERING BEHAVIOR; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERSECTIONS; MOTION PLANNING; STEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 28444470556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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