Constructing Comprehensive Behaviors: A Simulation Study

A general framework is proposed for behavior modeling, analysis and synthesis. This allows a better understanding and evaluation of the nature and role of behavior models in the following disciplines: ethology, robot behavior specification, animated character behavior specification, and automatic behavior analysis. In addition, it is argued that the following aspects of a system’s behavior usefully characterize behavior models: (1) physical, (2) physiological, (3) contextual, and (4) conceptual. We demonstrate how basic behavior units can be extracted from time sequence data of a synthetic two-state problem. This is done by detecting Basic Behavior Units using the affinity graph method, and then determining higher level behavior model parameters based on these.