Behavioral control for real-time simulated human agents

A system for controlling the behaviors of an interactive human-like agent, and executing them in real-time, is presented. It relies on an underlying model of continuous behavior as well as a discrete scheduling mechanism for changing behavior over time. A multiprocessing framework executes the behaviors and renders the motion of the agents in real-time. Finally we discuss the current state of our implementation and some areas of future work.

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