In emergencies, guides play a significant role for evacuees who are unfamiliar with the
environment. Proper guidance can improve evacuation efficiency, and the position of …

Empirical evidence suggests that evacuees tend to break down their well-coordinated
motion and adopt competitive egress behaviour when they are confronting life-endangering …

A social force model is proposed in this paper to study the effect of dedicated exit on the
evacuation of heterogeneous pedestrians in a public place. In this model, pedestrians are …

The original cost potential field cellular automata describing normal pedestrian evacuation is
extended to study more general evacuation scenarios. Based on the cost potential field …

Having to escape from a moving threat, such as a fire, is a tremendously frightening event
during an evacuation. Evacuees' decisions in such circumstances could be better made with …

Social relation network and group behavior are critical in building evacuation. In this paper,
six building evacuation experiments are designed and carried out to study the social relation …

To facilitate emergency evacuation, it is essential and important to investigate how system
dynamics govern collective behaviors of pedestrians in panic. Although it has already been …

Crowd at metro stations is usually a mixture of individuals and small groups of families or
friends. However, limited research has focused on small group behaviours for metro safe …

In the emergency under smoke or gas, the visual field of pedestrians is limited,
unreasonable evacuation guidance methods will affect the efficiency of evacuation, and …

This paper studies the problem of controlling a group of mobile robots to drive a group of
humans to an exit for emergency evacuation. The interactions between the robots and the …