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A Contagion Model Of Emergency Airplane Evacuations, Junyuan Lin
A Contagion Model Of Emergency Airplane Evacuations, Junyuan Lin
Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium
Motivated by the Asiana Flight 214 crash in San Francisco this summer, this project focuses on modeling an emergency airplane evacuation. Our models are based on the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, where each agent's position is compared to a fitness function that describes the current environment. Each agent moves according to its knowledge of its own previous best position and the group's current best position. The static environment is modeled by a potential function that describes the layout of the airplane that includes the exits and physical barriers such as the seats. We model the interactions within the swarm …