RVO Collision Avoidance in Unity 3D

Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles (RVO) method was used to produce collision avoidance for crowd simulations generated using the game engine Unity 3D. Smooth collision avoidance was produced for multiple agents in the same environment by using RVO collision avoidance method. There are three methods for generating crowd simulation using RVO collision avoidance in this experiment. The first method consists of taking user input on the starting position, goal position, and speed of each agent to be simulated and rendered in the virtual environment and the information will be exported to a file. The second method is loading a pre-existing file into Unity for the information to input for the simulation. The third method was to start with only one agent that continuously moves to random goal positions and can be duplicated to produce more agents in his environment. This experiment was combined with another collision avoidance method called predictive forces collision avoidance. An user interace was developed to choose which collision avoidance should be displayed and the specific method for the enviornment to be simulated and rendered in Unity.