Motion planning research and development
Kineo CAM is strongly involved in the scientific motion planning community and takes part in collaborations through national and international projects gathering academic and industrial partners.
MOLOG :
MOLOG (Motion for LOGistics) was a European project from the ESPRIT program. Started in February 1999 with duration of 3 years, it aimed in developing motion design technology in the framework of logistic engineering of complex industrial installations (nuclear power plant, offshore...). The European partners were EDF (FR) as an engineering end user, CadCenter (UK) as a software provider and two academic institutes, Universiteit Utrecht (NL) and Laas-CNRS (FR).
AVAMotion :
AVAMotion (Acteurs Virtuels Autonomes) was a French 2-year project started in 2003 from the RIAM program. The objectives of the project were to develop a software component generating realistic physical behaviors and theatrical self-expressions of digital actors in a real time 3D world. The partners were Daesign (Project leader), IRISA and Rennes 2 University. Kineo CAM was in charge of collision free motion planning for multiple characters. During the project, we have developed dedicated path planners for several digital actors simultaneously moving. These planners were able to take into account various ways to move (walk, run…) and a character was able to correct his trajectory in real time while another one were cutting his way.
MOVIE :
MOVIE (Motion planning in Virtual Environment) is a European 3-year project from the IST program started in 2003. The overall objective of this project is to develop motion planning techniques that can compute in real time visually-convincing motions for multiple autonomous entities that navigate through complex virtual worlds. These new technologies aim in having real-time performance, dealing with dynamic changes in the environment, planning simultaneous motions of multiple entities, planning motions for highly-articulated bodies like virtual manikins. MOVIE is a collaboration between Kineo CAM, Utrecht University, Laas-CNRS and Tel Aviv University.
AMYLO :
AMYLO project: innovative software tool for modelling Integrating protein flexibility
in receptor-ligand interactions also remains a challenge for accurate computer-aided drug design.
Besides, the recent methods proposed for flexible docking mostly address the local aspect
of the problem.
However, when the active site is located at the bottom of a narrow-deep cavity,
the docking of the ligand to the binding pocket may be influenced by the difficulty of accessing the active site, thus affecting the kinetics of the reaction.
Computing motions as large as that of a ligand entering from the protein surface to a deep active site remains too computationally expensive for energy-based modeling methods.