Title
Optimizing aspects of pedestrian traffic in building designs
Abstract
In this work, we investigate aspects of building design that can be optimized. Architectural features that we explore include pillar placement in simple corridors, doorway placement in buildings, and agent placement for information dispersement in an evacuation. The metrics utilized are tuned to the specific scenarios we study, which include continuous flow pedestrian movement and building evacuation. We use Multidimensional Direct Search (MDS) optimization with an extreme barrier criteria to find optimal placements while enforcing building constraints.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IROS.2013.6696521
Intelligent Robots and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
building,design engineering,optimisation,road traffic,search problems,agent placement,architectural features,building constraints,building designs,building evacuation,doorway placement,information dispersement,multidimensional direct search optimization,optimizing aspects,pedestrian movement,pedestrian traffic,pillar placement
Building design,Construction engineering,Pedestrian,Building evacuation,Computer science,Transport engineering,Continuous flow,Direct search,Road traffic,Control engineering,Pillar
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0858
2
0.39
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Rodríguez125315.69
Yinghua Zhang2223.30
Nicholas R. Gans316727.87
Nancy M. Amato42328187.71