Indoor evacuation model based on visual-guidance artificial bee colony algorithm

Research on evacuation simulation and modeling is an important and urgent issue for emergency management. This paper presents an evacuation model based on cellular automata and social force to simulate the evacuation dynamics. Attractive force of target position, repulsive forces of individuals and...

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Published in:Building simulation 2022-04, Vol.15 (4), p.645-658
Main Authors: Zong, Xinlu, Liu, Aiping, Wang, Chunzhi, Ye, Zhiwei, Du, Jiayuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution
Barriers
Building Construction and Design
Cellular automata
Changing environments
Congestion
Emergency management
Engineering
Engineering Thermodynamics
Evacuation
Heat and Mass Transfer
Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
Optimization algorithms
Research Article
Search algorithms
Simulation
Swarm intelligence
Visual fields
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Summary:Research on evacuation simulation and modeling is an important and urgent issue for emergency management. This paper presents an evacuation model based on cellular automata and social force to simulate the evacuation dynamics. Attractive force of target position, repulsive forces of individuals and obstacles, as well as congestion are considered in order to simulate the interaction among evacuees and the changing environment. A visual-guidance-based artificial bee colony algorithm is proposed to optimize the evacuation process. Each evacuee moves toward exits with the guidance of leading bee in his/her visual field. And leading bee is selected according to comprehensive factors including distance from the current individual, the number of obstacles and congestion, which avoids the randomness of roulette mechanism used by basic artificial bee colony algorithm. The experimental results indicate that the proposed model and algorithm can achieve effective performances for indoor evacuation problems with a large number of evacuees and obstacles, which accords with the actual evacuation situation.
ISSN:1996-3599
1996-8744
DOI:10.1007/s12273-021-0838-z