Workshop on
Scenario and Traffic Generation for Driving Simulation

Sponsored by The University of Iowa, Renault Research Center
and Ford Research Laboratory

Orlando, Florida
Marriott Courtyard at Walt Disney World Village

December 6-7, 1996

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: S. Bayarri (U. Valencia), J. Cremer (U. Iowa), J. Kearney (U. Iowa), A. Kemeny (Renault), O. Munier (Renault), Y. Papelis (U. Iowa)

Preliminary Schedule

Friday, December 6

8:30 - 8:45 AM Registration/continental breakfast

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and opening remarks

9:00 - 10:20 Session 1: Vehicle Behavior Modeling

• Teaching Intelligent Vehicles to Drive in Traffic:Tactical-level Scenarios,
  Rahul Sukthankar (Carnegie-Mellon U., USA)
  Pictures:
• Overhead view of a tactical-level scenario
• Driver's eye view of the same scenario
• 3-D histogram of evaluation distributions over time
  


• A General Purpose HCSM Controller for Arbitrary Intersection Topologies ,
  Omar Ahmad & Yiannis Papelis (U. Iowa, USA)
  


• A Hidden Markov Model Based Approach to Autonomous Traffic Generation and Validation ,
  Marcos Fernandez (U. Valencia, ESP), Salvador Bayarri (U. Valencia, ESP) & Andy Liu (Nissan Cambridge, USA)
  Pictures: Simulation test scenario Picture1, Picture2.
  

10:20 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 12:00 Session 2: Traffic Generation

• Traffic Generation and Scenario Control in the TRC Driving Simulator,
  Peter C. van Wolffelaar & Wim van Winsum (U. Groningen, NL)
  Pictures:Picture1, Picture2
  



• Ambient Traffic Generation Around a Moving Focus Point in Virtual Driving Environments,
  Anil Goje & Yiannis Papelis (U. Iowa, USA)
  


• Traffic Modeling and Simulation at Highway-Railroad Intersections,
  Fred Coleman (U. Illinois, USA)
  

12:00 - 1:30 Catered lunch on-site (included)

1:30 - 2:30 Brief overviews from groups not giving formal talks

• B. Artz (Ford Research Laboratory, USA)
• T. Fernando (U. Leeds, UK)
• U. Hanebutte (Argonne National Lab, USA)
• T. Rosenthal (STI, USA)
• D. Turpin (I*SIM Corp., USA)
• J. Kearney (U. Iowa, USA)

2:30 - 3:20 Session 3: Human Factors and Non-Driving Scenarios

• Autonomous Soldier Traffic ,
  Doug Reece (IST/U. Central Florida, USA)
  Pictures:Picture1, Picture2, Picture3, Picture4
  


• Designing Driving Simulation Scenarios : A Human Factors Perspective ,
  D. McGehee (U. Iowa, USA)
  

3:20 - 3:40 Break

3:40 - 4:40 Session 4: Scenario Creation

• Development of a General Purpose Scenario Control System with Micro- and Macro-level Traffic Simulation ,
  Michael Booth (Hyperion Technologies, Inc., USA)
  
• Graphical Authoring of Complex Scenarios Using High Level Coordinators ,
  Yiannis Papelis (U. Iowa)
  

Saturday, December 7

9:00am- 10:20 Session 5: Systems

• Driving Simulation in Realistic Urban Environments ,
  Stephane Donikian (IRISA,FR)
  Pictures and MPEGs: praxicar, VUEMS, VUEMS view intersection, Textured rendering intersection, Drivers view, Animation 1, Animation 2, Animation 3, Animation 4, Animation 5
  


• Traffic Generation in a Virtual Environments Driving Simulator ,
  Susan Chiu & Ronald R. Mourant (Northeastern U., USA)
  


• New Developments in Driving Simulation at Renault Research Center: STaRT 3.0 ,
  Mathieu Kergall, Stephane Regnier & Andras Kemeny (Renault Research Center, FR)
  Pictures: Picture 1

10:20 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 11:30 Session 6: Modeling Tools

• The Programming Language SHIFT and its application to Driving Simulation and Scenario Creation,
  Aleks Gollu (U. California, Berkeley)
  


• START, A Toolset for Generation of Large City and Rural Driving Simulation Databases ,
  Bodo Randt (STN-ATLAS, DE)
  Pictures:
• Scenario data at intersection
• Corresponding polygonal View
• Corresponding polygonal View (big)

11:30 - 12:30 Closing remarks (Dr. Andras Kemeny) and Wrap-up discussion