Virtual Affordance Protocol: Communication between Digital Human and Virtual Working Environment for Task Motion Planning

摘要

This paper deals with the digital human models which can work in a virtual factory. To generate appropriate motions of digital human models depending on the given task and working environment, the authors designed the information exchanging process between a digital human model and his/her surrounding objects. We call this process "Virtual Affordance Protocols(VAP)". Based on VAP, a digital human communicates with the target object or other objects in the working environment and decides his/her motions for operating the task object. VAP provides digital human with autonomous ability with which he/she can generate task motions adaptively for various situations.