Feb 19,2019 Scientific research & Postgraduate Studies, ICT Engineering

Hybrid Force-Based Model to Simulate Behavior of Human Crowd in Panic Situations

Researchers

Ammar Alnahhas, Elisaar Barri

Published in

Journal of Digital Information Management, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2019

Abstract

Modelling human behavior is important as it helps preparing for the situation of emergency to save lives. In this paper we present new methods to simulate crowd evacuation phenomena by using a physical model. We focus on applying more effective forces focusing on Spring-Force as general forces affecting agents as well as repulsive danger-force, in addition, we propose a new algorithm for an interaction behavior. We implement our algorithm in a real-world application which shows that our model provides results approaching reality and is promising compared to the other models

Keywords:

Intelligent Agents, Simulation, Force-based Model, Human Crowd Simulation

 

Link to read full paper

http://www.dirf.org/jdim/current-issue/