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Crowd Evacuation for Indoor Public Spaces Using Coulomb’s Law
Joint Authors
Hexmoor, Henry
Kamkarian, Pejman
Source
Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-16, 16 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-08-09
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
16
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Science
Abstract EN
This paper focuses on designing a tool for guiding a group of people out of a public building when they are faced with dangerous situations that require immediate evacuation.
Despite architectural attempts to produce safe floor plans and exit door placements, people will still commit to fatal route decisions.
Since they have access to global views, we believe supervisory people in the control room can use our simulation tools to determine the best courses of action for people.
Accordingly, supervisors can guide people to safety.
In this paper, we combine Coulomb’s electrical law, graph theory, and convex and centroid concepts to demonstrate a computer-generated evacuation scenario that divides the environment into different safe boundaries around the locations of each exit door in order to guide people through exit doors safely and in the most expedient time frame.
Our mechanism continually updates the safe boundaries at each moment based on the latest location of individuals who are present inside the environment.
Guiding people toward exit doors depends on the momentary situations in the environment, which in turn rely on the specifications of each exit door.
Our mechanism rapidly adapts to changes in the environment in terms of moving agents and changes in the environmental layout that might be caused by explosions or falling walls.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kamkarian, Pejman& Hexmoor, Henry. 2012. Crowd Evacuation for Indoor Public Spaces Using Coulomb’s Law. Advances in Artificial Intelligence،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-464149
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kamkarian, Pejman& Hexmoor, Henry. Crowd Evacuation for Indoor Public Spaces Using Coulomb’s Law. Advances in Artificial Intelligence No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-464149
American Medical Association (AMA)
Kamkarian, Pejman& Hexmoor, Henry. Crowd Evacuation for Indoor Public Spaces Using Coulomb’s Law. Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-16.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-464149
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-464149