PLUME: Procedural Layer Underground Modeling Engine

Underground environments are not easily accessible for experiments as they can
require extensive administrative overheads, go through strict security protocols and
necessitate well-planned experiments. As a result, experimenting in such experiments
is tedious, and simulation is often preferred. Nevertheless, acquiring a realistic 3D
underground environment is complicated, with many mines refusing to share their
precise topologies. This leads to the fact that the quantity and variety of such resources available are not enough to tackle the vast diversity of the environment that can be found below our feet.
This poster presents PLUME, a procedural generator of underground environments
that enables users to easily and quickly create 3D underground environments. The
generated environments can be used for AI training, evaluation of robotics algorithms,
3D rendering and more. Furthermore, they can be used to iterate very quickly on
developed exploration algorithms.