CPSC 689-608: Seminar in Robotics
Segment on Animation
Spring 2002

• 04/04/02: Introduction to Physically Based Modelling - Burchan Bayazit
• Topics: Force/Acceleration/Velocity, Integrations, Particle Systems, Spring-Mass Systems, Implicit Integrations
• Required:
  • SIGGRAPH'99 Notes, Dave Baraff
    Read lecture notes and prepare a summary for class. Concentrate on the following sections: Differential Equation Basics, Particle Dynamics and Implicit Methods.
• 04/11/02: Behaviors in Character Animation - Jyh-Ming Lien
• Topics: Flock and Group behaviors (and our research).
• Required:
  • Craig Reynold's original paper
• Optional:
  • Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics, D.C. Brogan and J.K. Hodgins, Autonomous Robotcs, 4(1), pp. 137-153, 1997.
• 04/18/02: Behaviors in Robotics - Burchan Bayazit
• Topics: Subsumption architecture and other approaches
• Required:
  • Behavior-Based Robotics, Ronald Arkin.
    Read Chapter 4 of the E-book and prepare a summary for the class. Please don't check out the book but browse it. There are only two copies. Hard copies of that chapter are available at 407 Conference Room.
    ps: Information on how to use E-books can be found at http://library.tamu.edu/promo/ebook/index.htm
• Optional:
  A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot by Rodney Brooks, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1986, pp. 14-23; also MIT AI Memo 864, September 1985,
  • Chapter 4, Basic Behaviors Approach of Maja Mataric's Thesis
• 04/23/02: Artificial Life - Burchan Bayazit
• Topics: General Overview and a detailed view of artificial fishes
• Required:
  • Artificial fishes: Autonomous locomotion, perception, behavior", X. Tu, D. Terzopoulos, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH'94 Conference, Orlando, FL, July, 1994, in Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1994, 43-50.
  • Artificial life for computer graphics, D. Terzopoulos, Communications of the ACM, 42(8), August, 1999, 32-42.
    
    To access both papers, scroll down to Full Text in the linked pages.