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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.
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Laue, T., Stahl, C. (2010). Modeling and Simulating Ambient Assisted Living Environments – A Case Study. In: Augusto, J.C., Corchado, J.M., Novais, P., Analide, C. (eds) Ambient Intelligence and Future Trends-International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2010). Advances in Soft Computing, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13268-1_30
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