A rule-based interactive behavioral animation system for humanoids

We present a versatile, behavioral, and rule-based animation system that in cludes autonomous humanoid actors whose behavior is based on synthetic sens ors that are used for perceiving the Virtual environment. We combine the fo llowing in a consistent approach: L-systems, a behavioral production rule s ystem; a particle system; an acoustic environment model, including a speech recognition module; a virtual life network; and a humanoid library. Togeth er, these systems create a real-time-structured virtual environment that bo th high-level autonomous humanoids and interactive users can easily share.