General Animation and Simulation Platform

We present in this paper a platform which integrates the different animation models: descriptive, generative and behavioural models. The integration of these models in the same platform permits to offer to each dynamic entity a more realistic and a richer environment, and thereby to increase possible interactions between an actor and its environment. Therefore we describe the unification and the temporal extension of all animation models, within the animation and simulation platform. Theoretical and practical aspects of the platform implementation and experimental results on a driving simulation example are presented.