What Can Be Done With Hank

The following examples of current research supported by Hank, give a sense of what Hank is:

To give a sense of what Hank is, we present examples of the kinds of activities Hank supports:

• Experiments with new behavior models for drivers, pedestrians, traffic lights, and other entities by extending pre-defined behaviors or defining completely new behaviors using a high-level programming language designed for programming complex, reactive behaviors.

• Development of new physical models for simulation entities by changing the appearance, degrees of freedom, or underlying dynamic models of objects.

• Creating driving scenarios by writing high-level programs that coordinate entity behaviors on-line during simulations.

• Designing road database models by modifying existing road databases or defining entirely new scenes.