Robot design using Unity for computer games and robotic simulations

Author

Mattingly, William A. ; Chang, Dar-jen ; Paris, Richard ; Smith, Neil ; Blevins, John ; Ouyang, Ming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

July 30 2012-Aug. 1 2012

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

59

Abstract

We present a new approach to robot design, using the Unity development environment as the primary authoring tool for a functional virtual robot. We also discuss the development of a collection of design assets in the form of Unity packages which we have found to greatly improve the workflow and accessibility of robot design for computer games and robotic simulations.

Keywords

authoring systems; computer games; graphical user interfaces; mobile robots; virtual reality; GUI; Unity development environment; Unity packages; computer games; functional virtual robot; graphical user interfaces; primary authoring tool; robot design accessibility improvement; robot design workflow improvement; robotic simulations; Animation; Computational modeling; Computers; Games; Joints; Service robots; Computer Games; Hierarchical Skeleton Structures; Locomotion Animation; Robotic Simulation; Unity Game Engines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Games (CGAMES), 2012 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Louisville, KY

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1120-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CGames.2012.6314552

Filename

6314552