China Safety Science Journal ›› 2018, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (1): 38-43.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2018.01.007

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Study on cellular automation evacuation model based on improved ant colony optimization algorithm

WANG Ru, ZHOU Lei, LIU Jun   

  1. School of Civil Engineering,Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an Shaanxi 710055, China
  • Received:2017-09-30 Online:2018-01-28 Published:2020-09-28

Abstract: In order to prevent casualties during actual evacuation processes, a CA evacuation model was built based on improved ACO algorithm according to personal evacuation characteristics. The model regards the pedestrian as an individual cell, and modifies the heuristic function, pheromone update methods and tabu rule of ACO algorithm to realize the retrograde, detour, obstacle avoidance and herd behavior in the process of evacuation. An evacuation process from a single exit room was simulated by using the model. A comparison was made between the simulation result and that obtained by using the commercial software pathfinder. The results show that the model can simulate the ″arching″ phenomenon in the actual evacuation process, and the evacuation time obtained by this model is similar to that obtained by commercial software pathfinder, which proves that the model is effective in the evacuation process, and that compared to pathfinder, it can output main evacuation routes.

Key words: evacuation model, cellular automation(CA), ant colony optimization(ACO), arch distribution, main evacuation rout

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