Title
Feedback Control of Crowd Evacuation in One Dimension
Abstract
This paper studies crowd models in one dimension. The focus of this paper is on the design of nonlinear feedback controllers for these models. Two different models are studied where dynamics are represented by a single partial differential equation (PDE) in one case and a system of hyperbolic PDEs in another, and control models are proposed for both. These include advective, diffusive, and advective-diffusive controls. The models representing evacuation dynamics are based on the laws of conservation of mass and momentum and are described by nonlinear hyperbolic PDEs. As such, the system is distributed in nature. We address the design of feedback control for these models in a distributed setting where the problem of control and stability is formulated directly in the framework of PDEs. The control goal is to design feedback controllers to control the movement of people during evacuation and avoid jams and shocks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TITS.2010.2040080
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
control system synthesis,feedback,nonlinear control systems,partial differential equations,advective-diffusive controls,crowd evacuation,hyperbolic partial differential equations,nonlinear feedback controllers,one dimension,stability,Crowd-evacuation dynamics,PDE backstepping control,distributed feedback control,hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs)
Differential equation,Nonlinear system,Control theory,Simulation,Nonlinear control,Distributed parameter system,Adaptive control,Partial differential equation,Conservation law,Mathematics,Hyperbolic partial differential equation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
1
1524-9050
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
1.00
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sabiha Amin Wadoo1213.24
Pushkin Kachroo220131.04