TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Crowd evacuation simulation research based on improved reciprocal velocity obstacles (RVO) model with path planning and emotion contagion JO - Transportation research record A1 - Li, Jun A1 - Zhang, Haoxiang SP - 740 EP - 757 VL - 2676 IS - 3 N2 - Crowd evacuation simulation is an important research topic for designing reasonable building layout and effective evacuation routes. The reciprocal velocity obstacles (RVO) model is a pedestrian motion model which is used, but it does not work when complex and multiple obstacles are present in the scene. This paper proposes an improved RVO model with path planning and emotion contagion for crowd evacuation simulation. The model uses the vertices of the obstacles to construct pedestrian path nodes for planning pedestrian evacuation paths. To make the pedestrian evacuation paths simulation results more reasonable, the safety and congestion of the path nodes are considered, to plan the shortest evacuation path. Finally, a contagious disease model is introduced to study the impact of emotion contagion on the evacuation process. A crowd evacuation simulation system is developed, and simulations have been carried out in a variety of scenarios. Experiments show that the model can effectively simulate crowd evacuation, providing a powerful reference for building and layout design.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0361-1981 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03611981211056910 ID - ref1 ER -