Team
Monthly crowd simulation research meeting
More than 50 MSc students have succesfully finished their theses.
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We study how we can automatically create a data structure that represents the walkable surfaces in virtual environments, and how it can be updated dynamically and efficiently when it changes. We refer to this structure as a navigation mesh. This mesh enables efficient crowd simulation, which is our next topic of research. We study and develop a crowd simulation framework and its components, which ranges from global (AI) planning to local animation. We create models for realistic crowd behaviors, which includes studying how (groups of) people move and avoid collisions in such environments, based on agent profiles and semantics (such as terrain annotations).
PhD students
I have supervised the following PhD students:
- Norman S. Jaklin. On Weighted Regions and Social Crowds: Autonomous-agent Navigation in Virtual Worlds. PhD Thesis. Utrecht University. 18 April 2016.
PhD Thesis Norman Jaklin
- Wouter G. van Toll. Navigation for Characters and Crowds in Complex Virtual Environments. PhD Thesis. Utrecht University. 30 March 2017.
PhD Thesis Wouter van Toll
I've supervised the following PhD student:
- Arne Hillebrand. Crowd simulation.
Many pictures and movies on this website are made by them!
Scientific programmers
I have supervised the following scientific programmers:
