Engenuity presents the latest in Artificial Intelligence technology at the Serious Games Summit GDC!
The University of Southern Californias's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) joins forces with Engenuity to present how artificial intelligence is being used in their Integrating Architecture project. The Integrating Architecture (IA) project buildsand maintains the Integrating Architecture (IA) technology base, acommon virtual environment that integrates internal ICT research withexternal research from Army labs, research centers, other universitiesand the commercial game industry. The IA project also brings expertisein graphics, AI, and sound to the Army research community, making thetraining tools developed more effective and immersive.
Below is a description of the session given by Dr. Michael Van Lent of ICT and Dr. Paul Kruszewski of Engenuity Technologies.
Not Just for Combat Training: Using Game Technology in Non-Kinetic Urban Simulations
One of the greatest challenges of urbansimulations is to recreate the behavior of realistic crowds in a citysetting. With thousands of characters and buildings, and anexponentially greater number of potential interactions and responses,simulations are facing major hurdles in terms of dealing with thereality of urban life. More importantly, the relevance of non-kineticaspects of combat - diplomatic, economic, political, infrastructure andsocial issues - are playing an increasingly larger role in NextGeneration Simulations.
This session will address the emerging use of games technology to powercomplex urban simulations that deal specifically with non-kineticaspects of warfare. Thus far, many MOUT simulations have focused onshooting, tanks and tactical maneuvers rather than the more complexissues of civilian "group" behaviors and crowd based navigation. Wewill consider the impact that Artificial Intelligence software, gameengines, and other COTS tools on the development of more immersive andeffective non-kinetic urban simulations.
A special emphasis will be placed upon the importance of developingthis type of simulation for homeland security, first responder, anddisaster preparedness applications.