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Driving simulators are important applications of virtual reality. The traditional applications of driving simulators include only the scene
created by applications’ screenwriters, and are short of the interaction between the participants (drivers) and the roles in the scene, (such as the interaction
between cars and cars, between cars and pedestrians, and between cars and the environment, etc.) This could prevent the participants from achieving the full immersion in the virtual environment. In this project, we include the concept of artificial life as an effective approach to embed the interaction between roles in a virtual environment. We have
constructed the model of autonomous agents, the model of the behaviors of autonomous agents, and the basic design of the sensing engine.
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