Optimizing aspects of pedestrian traffic in building designs

In this work, we investigate aspects of building design that can be optimized. Architectural features that we explore include pillar placement in simple corridors, doorway placement in buildings, and agent placement for information dispersement in an evacuation. The metrics utilized are tuned to the...

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Main Authors: Rodriguez, Samuel, Yinghua Zhang, Gans, Nicholas, Amato, Nancy M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Floors
Force
Measurement
Optimization
Robots
Vectors
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Summary:In this work, we investigate aspects of building design that can be optimized. Architectural features that we explore include pillar placement in simple corridors, doorway placement in buildings, and agent placement for information dispersement in an evacuation. The metrics utilized are tuned to the specific scenarios we study, which include continuous flow pedestrian movement and building evacuation. We use Multidimensional Direct Search (MDS) optimization with an extreme barrier criteria to find optimal placements while enforcing building constraints.
ISSN:2153-0858
2153-0866
DOI:10.1109/IROS.2013.6696521