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Fuzzy simulation of pedestrian walking path considering local environmental stimuli

conference contribution
posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Mojdeh Nasir, Saeid Nahavandi, Douglas CreightonDouglas Creighton
Pedestrian steering activity is a perception-based decision making process that involves interaction with the surrounding environment and insight into environmental stimuli. There are many stimuli within the environment that influence pedestrian wayfinding behaviour during walking activities. However, compelling factors such as individual physical and psychological characteristics and trip intention cause the behaviour become a very fuzzy concept. In this paper pedestrian steering behaviour is modelled using a fuzzy logic approach. The objective of this research is to simulate pedestrian walking paths in indoor public environments during normal and non-panic situations. The proposed algorithm introduces a fuzzy logic framework to predict the impact of perceived attractive and repulsive stimuli, within the pedestrian's field of view, on movement direction. Environmental stimuli are quantified using the social force method. The algorithm is implemented in a simulated area of an office corridor consist of a printer and exit door. Stochastic simulation using the proposed fuzzy algorithm generated realistic walking trajectories, contour map of dynamic change of environmental effects in each step of movement and high flow areas in the corridor.

History

Event

International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (2012 : Brisbane, Qld.)

Pagination

1311 - 1316

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Location

Brisbane, Qld.

Place of publication

Los Alamitos, Calif.

Start date

2012-06-10

End date

2012-06-15

ISSN

1098-7584

ISBN-13

9781467315074

ISBN-10

1467315079

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Title of proceedings

FUZZ-IEEE 2012 : Proceedings of the IEEE 2012 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems