Behavior-based evacuation planning

In this work, we present a formulation of an evacuation planning problem that is inspired by motion planning and describe an integrated behavioral agent-based and roadmap-based motion planning approach to solve it. Our formulation allows users to test the effect on evacuation of a number of different environmental factors. One of our main focuses is to provide a mechanism to investigate how the interaction between agents influences the resulting evacuation plans. Specifically, we explore how various types of control provided by a set of directing agents effects the overall evacuation planning strategies of the evacuating agents.

Authors

• Samuel Rodríguez
• Nancy M. Amato

Keywords

• Computational modeling
• USA Councils
• Motion planning
• Environmental factors
• Robotics and automation
• Laboratories
• Computer science
• Testing
• Strategic planning
• Computer simulation
• Evacuation Plan
• Path Planning
• Planning Approach
• Planning Problem
• Local Information
• Behavioral Control
• Single Agent
• Grid Cells
• Global Information
• Edge Weights
• Problematic Aspects
• Group Of Agents
• Environmental Knowledge
• Lowest Weight
• Behavior Of Agents
• Safe Area
• Hazardous Areas
• Dangerous Areas
• Evacuation Time
• Knowledge Of Agents
• Evacuation Routes
• Group Hierarchy
• Kinds Of Areas