Human Behaviour Modelling for Simulating Evacuation of Buildings on Fire

Julien Valentin (1) , Florent Coudret (2) , Eric Gouarderes (1) , Wilfrid Lefer (1)

1 LIUPPA - Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
2 CSTB - Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment

Many simulators currently attempt to take account of the human factor in peoples use of infrastructure. The aim of simulating fire evacuation is to analyse how easily a building can be evacuated in different fire scenarios, at the early stages of building design. Such simulations may be used to inform decision-making in implementing various aids to evacuation (signage, smoke extraction systems, ...), in reviewing building design, or in the development of building-specific evacuation procedures. In this article we describe a software architecture and a set of concepts for controlling how human behaviour adapts in a fire evacuation scenario.

Mots clés: Building on fire; Behavioural animation; Crowd simulation; Microscopic modelling; Emergency situations; Security; Building on fire.

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation; Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Julien Valentin, Florent Coudret, Eric Gouarderes, Wilfrid Lefer. Human Behaviour Modelling for Simulating Evacuation of Buildings on Fire. 24th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2011), May 2011, Chengdu, China. pp.1 - 12. ⟨hal-00648547⟩