Versatile tuning of humanoid agent activity

In this paper, we present an integration framework for heterogeneous motion generators. The objective is to outline issues that are currently easily s olved in professional post-processing systems used in film and game product ion but which cannot be transposed as is to real-time systems with autonomo us agents. We summarise our approach for articulated agent-modelling and th eir animation by combining heterogeneous motion generators, such as real-ti me motion capturing, key-framing, inverse kinematics, procedural walking. W e propose an agent/action-oriented framework. Activity properties such as a ction simultaneity and motion blending, spatial coherence, motion-flow upda te schemes, agent attachments, and location corrections, are the main topic s handled by our generic animation framework. Numerous examples throughout the paper illustrate our approach and outline encountered problems and solu tions or open research directions.