Knowledge in the Loop: Semantics Representation for Multimodal Simulative Environments

This article describes the integration of knowledge based techniques into simulative Virtual Reality (VR) applications. The approach is motivated ltimodal Virtual Construction as an example domain. An abstract Knowledge Representation Layer (KRL) is proposed which is expressive enough to define all necessary data for diverse simulation tasks and which additionally provides a base formalism for the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) representations. The KRL supports two different implementation methods. The first method uses XSLT processing to transform the external KRL format into the representation formats of the diverse target systems. The second method implements the KRL using a functionally extendable semantic network. The semantic net library is tailored for real time simulation systems where it interconnects the required simulation modules and establishes access to the knowledge representations inside the simulation loop. The KRL promotes a novel object model for simulat...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SG
• Authors: Marc Erich Latoschik, Peter Biermann, Ipke Wachsmuth
• Keywords: Knowledge Representations, Semantic, SG 2005, Simulation