Teaching Bayesian behaviours to video game characters

✍ Scribed by Ronan Le Hy; Anthony Arrigoni; Pierre Bessière; Olivier Lebeltel

• Book ID: 104090685
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 153 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-8890
• DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2004.03.012

✦ Synopsis

This article explores an application of Bayesian programming to behaviours for synthetic video games characters. We address the problem of real-time reactive selection of elementary behaviours for an agent playing a first person shooter game. We show how Bayesian programming can lead to condensed and easier formalisation of finite state machine-like behaviour selection, and lend itself to learning by imitation, in a fully transparent way for the player.