Real-time path planning in dynamic virtual environments using multiagent navigation graphs

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 526-538

  Sud, Avneesh ^b   Andersen, Erik ^c   Curtis, Sean ^c   Lin, Ming C ^a,d   Manocha, Dinesh ^c  

^a IEEE

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd simulation; Motion planning; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

CROWD SIMULATION; MULTIAGENT NAVIGATION GRAPHS; VORONOI DIAGRAM;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MOTION PLANNING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA DISPLAY; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 41549116512     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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