• DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-13268-1_30
• Corpus ID: 16521458

Modeling and Simulating Ambient Assisted Living Environments - A Case Study

@inproceedings{Laue2010ModelingAS,
  title={Modeling and Simulating Ambient Assisted Living Environments - A Case Study},
  author={Tim Laue and Christoph Stahl},
  booktitle={ISAmI},
  year={2010}
}

• T. Laue, Christoph Stahl
• Published in ISAmI 2010
• Computer Science

Modeling the layout of an apartment – including different furniture configurations and several moving elements – is a non-trivial task, especially if accessibility has to be assured e. g. for wheelchairs. In this paper, we describe a two-staged example for such a task by connecting two different applications: In the first step, the YAMAMOTO toolkit is used to efficiently model the building structure and to plan the furnishing of the environment in 3-D. Afterwards, the desired configuration becomes exported to SimRobot, a robot simulator based on rigid body dynamics. Thereby, a realistic evaluation of the physical configuration becomes possible, e. g. by interactively driving an electrical wheelchair through the environment.