| Sponsor |
Prof. Jessica Hodgins jkh@cc.gatech.edu |
| Area | GVU & Intelligent Systems |
Problem
One of the disadvantages of using simulation for animation is that it
is time-consuming to adapt an existing behavior to a new character. In
a paper in Siggraph '97, we demonstrated that simulated annealing
combined with scaling laws could be used to adapt control systems from
one character to another with substantially different dynamic
properties.
In this project you will implement an algorithm called MIMIC that was presented in a paper by De Bonet, Isbell, and Viola at NIPS 1996. After verifying that the algorithms works as expected on the test cases given in the paper, you should then compare the performance of the algorithm with that of simulated annealing for our problem of adapting control systems. You will be provided with the test problem and the simulated annealing implementation.