Introduction

The character animation group at UBC has been working on Simbicon for a while now, and have published various other projects on the topic. This page briefly describes these projects and link to relevant resources.

Robust Task-based Control Policies for Physics-based Characters

• Stelian Coros, Philippe Beaudoin and Michiel van de Panne. Robust Task-based Control Policies for Physics-based Characters. ACM Transactions on Graphics 28 (5), 2009. (Proc. of SIGGRAPH ASIA)
• See the project page.
• Watch the YouTube video.
• Play the game, from the downloads section.

Synthesis of Constrained Walking Skills

• Stelian Coros, KangKang Yin, Philippe Beaudoin and Michiel van de Panne. Synthesis of Constrained Walking Skills. ACM Transactions on Graphics 27 (5), 2008. (Proc. of SIGGRAPH ASIA)
• See the project page.
• Watch the YouTube video.

Continuation Methods for Adapting Simulated Skills

• KangKang Yin, Stelian Coros, Philippe Beaudoin, Michiel van de Panne. Continuation Methods for Adapting Simulated Skills. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2008)
• See the project page.
• Watch the YouTube video.

Original Simbicon

• KangKang Yin, Kevin Loken, Michiel van de Panne. SIMBICON: Simple Biped Locomotion Control. ACM Transactions on Graphics 26 (3), 2008. (Proc. of SIGGRAPH)
• See the project page.
• Play with the java applet.