Human Movement System

Table of Contents

• Components that Make Up the Human Movement System
  • Sensors
  • Controllers
  • Actuators

The human movement system is a system of sensor, controller, and actuator components that comprise the movement model for individual human entities.

This system is configured on several entity types in VR-Forces, including civilian and dismounted infantry entities.

Defined in system definition file: human.sysdef

The human movement system can be configured as part of a human entity.

Components that Make Up the Human Movement System

The figure below shows which systems and simulation components are configured as part of the human movement system. The boxes (nodes) represent indivdiual DtSimComponent classes. The edges connecting the boxes indicate port or port group connections between components. Dotted lines indicate connections that are internal (private) to the system. Solid lines indicate public connections between the system and external systems and/or components.

Sensors

• DtObstructionSensor -- What entities or terrain features are in my way?

Controllers

• DtHumanJoystickMovementController -- Control movement through a joystick.
• DtWaitController -- Stop moving and wait.
• DtHumanCollisionAvoidanceController -- Try to avoid potential collisions with obstructions.
• DtHumanPostureController -- Manage static (non-moving) posture.
• DtHumanAimWeaponController -- Turn toward target to aim before firing.
• DtHumanMoveToController -- Execute move-to waypoint and move-to location tasks.
• DtHumanMoveAlongController -- Execute move-along route tasks.
• DtHumanFollowController -- Follow another entity.
• DtHumanPatrolController -- Execute patrol-along-route and patrol between <waypoints> tasks.
• DtHumanStopMovingController -- Respond to stop-moving tasks.
• DtHumanTurnToController -- Turn to desired heading.
• DtPathMovementController -- Plan a path to a goal, using A* algorithm.
• DtHumanEyepointController -- Compute the location of the eyepoint, based on current posture.

Actuators

• DtHumanMovementActuator -- Simple model of human movement

Note:

If you modify the system definition file, or any of the components it contains, multiple entity types may be affected.  All entity types that include this system in its parameter database file will be modified.