Optimizing aspects of pedestrian traffic in building designs

Samuel Rodriguez; Yinghua Zhang; Nicholas Gans; Nancy M. Amato

doi:10.1109/IROS.2013.6696521

Optimizing aspects of pedestrian traffic in building designs

Samuel Rodriguez, Yinghua Zhang, Nicholas Gans, Nancy M. Amato

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Abstract

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. © 2013 IEEE.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	1327-1334
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781467363587
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2013.6696521
State	Published - Nov 2013
Externally published	Yes

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