• DocumentCode
    980030
  • Title

    Multi-agent modeling and simulation of human behavior in aircraft evacuations

  • Author

    Sharma, Sharad ; Singh, Harpreet ; Prakash, Atul

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Bowie State Univ., Bowie, MD
  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1477
  • Lastpage
    1488
  • Abstract
    Predicting the collective behavior of people during evacuations from aircraft is a significant challenge, complicated by human behavioral factors such as stress and panic. This paper presents a multi-agent system for simulating the impact of individual human factors on aircraft evacuations. Based on the model, a prototype system, AvatarSim, was developed to simulate emergency evacuations from aircrafts. The simulator can be used to model situations that are difficult to test in real-life due to safety considerations.
  • Keywords
    human factors; humanities; multi-agent systems; AvatarSim; aircraft evacuations; collective behavior; emergency evacuations; human behavior; multi-agent modeling; multi-agent system; Aircraft manufacture; Certification; Computational modeling; FAA; Fuzzy logic; Human factors; Safety; Stress; Testing; Uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.2008.4667723
  • Filename
    4667723