Character Animation Technologies for the Common Driver Trainer (CDT)

Abstract

The U.S, Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) was tasked to analyze options for character animation improvement in the Common Driver Trainer (CDT). This report provides a discussion of some of the available technologies and shows that since the CDT is currently required to use one specific vendor for the Image Generator (lG), the only good option for character animation is Boston Dynamics DI-Guy, This is due to the fact that the IG is already integrated with DI-Guy. Considering the likely cost of changing the IG to use another character animation technology, even one that is government-owned, AMRDEC recommended that the CDT program obtain the necessary licenses to DI-Guy for integration with the trainer. However, it was also recommended that the CDT program remove the requirement for a specific IG,allowing other commercial, open source, or government-owned rendering capabilities to be considered in the future, thus opening the door for other character animation technologies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA531781

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  • Danny Carter

Organizations

  • Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Aviation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Generators
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • Night Vision
  • Operating Systems
  • Personality
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional
  • Training
  • Vehicle Equipment
  • Virtual Reality

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