ABOUT US
Instinct [maker] provides behavioral intelligence solutions
- to allow new interaction experiences in virtual simulations,
video games, serious games and robotics
- to speed up behavior programming of non player characters,
bots and supervising agents
OUR TEAM
Skills
As behavioral simulation and artificial life specialists, our team members
are experts in programming efficient behaviors with understandable
models and automatic learning tools with life-inspired techniques.
Founders
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Vincent SCESA CEO master of engineering PhD robotics and AI |
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Clement RAIEVSKY Head of R&D PhD in AI |
OUR PARTNERS
Technological :
- IRIT laboratory and Université Toulouse Capitole (UT1), France.
Institutional :
- Ministère de la recherche
CETI 2009 winner (french contest for innovative companies)
- Région Midi-Pyrénées
InnOvations 2009 winner (Midi-Pyrénées contest for innovation)
OUR OFFICE
Located is the center of Toulouse, in the south west of France,
our team works inside the old tobacco factory, renovated
during the last century, along the Canal de Brienne.
INSTINCT BEHAVIOR ENGINE : IBE
Embed a realistic decision making architecture providing credible and adaptive behaviors.
It makes the links between what a creature perceives and what it should do.
Data extraction
IBE extracts the raw perceptions from the surrounding world and interprets the situation
thanks to virtual perceptive sensors (e.g. hearing, viewing) and cognitive sensors (e.g. dangerous area).
Priority processing
Each creature or agent decides what to do based on its perceptions, its own motivations,
its behaviors, and the scenario.
Decision making
The decision is carried out by unfolding the successive behavior blocks,
and the corresponding actions are carried out by the controller of the creature.
AUTOMATIC LEARNING
GIVE LEARNING ABILITIES TO YOUR CHARACTERS
- they can build their own behaviors by automatically exploring thousands of possible situations
- they can adapt online their behaviors if changes occur in the environment
- the obtained rule based models are easily understandable and translatable into finite state machines
Artificial evolution
> online learning (for adaptation) or offline learning (for behavior building)
> trial and error process
> reinforcement and artificial evolution techniques
Imitation of player behaviors
> online learning
> modelling of human tutor behaviors
> behavior teaching with player control of the character
INSTINCT BEHAVIORS TOOLS : IBT
Use the IBT toolbox to feed the IBE with efficient sensors
and behavior blocks optimized for your application.
Just create, add, hold, delete and adapt the behaviors in real time with :
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IM library Choose the behaviors you need from dedicated libraries |
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IM manager allocate behaviors to your characters and manage your scenario |
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IM SDK Integrate your own algorithms into IBE as behavior blocks |
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IM imitation Teach appropriate behaviors to your characters by simply demonstrating how to react |
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IM evolution Let your character build their own behaviors with a trial and error process |
BEHAVIORS LIBRARIES
Our team is continuously developing new behaviors.
LIBRARIES CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED :
- FPS library : bots into a capture the flag scenario
- Urban simulation library : pedestrians and vehicules
- Train/tramway station library : normal and dangerous behaviors
- House simulation : household appliance use
- MMORPG library : non player characters
- Learning behaviors : automatic adaptation to a user
YOUR BENEFITS
PUT YOUR PLAYERS IN A MORE REALISTIC WORLD
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- situation understanding - Environment adaptation - Player interaction - Autonomous decision making - Dynamic behavior attribution |
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KEEP CONTROLLING THE DECISIONS
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- Behaviors scripting - readable and tunable models |
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DO NOT WASTE TIME IN SCRIPTING YOUR CHARACTERS
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- efficient decision making architecture - automatic behavior learning - progressive collection of behaviors - behaviors libraries |
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FUTURE EVENTS
12-10 - Game connection
Instinct [maker] team will be present at the Game connection in Lyon
08-10 - GDC Europe
Instinct [maker] team will be present at the GDC Europe Show in Köln
08-10 - IBT Toolbox
solutions
07-10 - Newsletter #2
07-10 - Team Build-up
recruitment start
PAST EVENTS
06-10 - Game AI Conference
Instinct [maker] team will be present at the Game AI Conference in Paris
05-10 - Newsletter #1
04-10 - Mélée numérique 14
Instinct [maker] team was at the Mélée numérique in Toulouse
03-10 - Custom IBE solutions
solutions
02-10 - Business start-up
The Instinct [maker] company is created
11-09 - Team Build up
Clement RAIEVSKY joins the Instinct [maker] team
10-09 - InnOvations 09 contest winner
Instinct [maker] wins the "future" award : winners list
06-09 - CETI09 contest winner
Instinct [maker] wins an "emergence" award : winners list
02-09 - Business incubator
Instinct [maker] is supported by the Midi-Pyrénées Business incubator
PRESS
04-10 - Kwantik
press paper
04-10 - Touleco
press paper
10-09 - InnOvations 09 contest winner
Instinct [maker] wins the "future" award : press paper
09-09 - Gazette du Midi
press paper
01-09 - Mid e-news
press paper
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CAREER
To come.
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CONTACT
Instinct [maker] SAS
29 rue Jeanne Marving
31400 Toulouse
FRANCE
+33(0)668 057 066
contact@instinct-maker.com
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