Collision of people

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Omar Aguilera Rico asked Jun 29, '18 Joerg Vogel commented Jul 5, '18

Collision of people

Hello boys.

I want to represent the part of a stadium, where I want to simulate that people arrive to their respective seats, and through an event detonate an evacuation to represent the accumulation of people and know how many emergency exit doors are necessary. I have thought to make this representation with the a * navigator but I have encountered a problem. The problem is that I create people through a Source and those people do not detect them in a navigator to detect the collisions between them, is it possible to make this representation with the navigator or how can I represent it?

I thank you very much for your ideas.

Software Version:

FlexSim 18.1.2

collision task executer flowitem

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Joerg Vogel commented · Jun 30, 2018 at 06:00 AM

Please consider to use a different tool than FlexSim. If you simulate a very tiny area or a special situation this might work with the people module. A whole evacuation scenario is different.

In my opinion an evacuation is more like the bottling conveyor module. You won't be able to simulate the insane behavior of persons looking for an alternative exit.

FlexSim doesn't have the physical behavior where accumulated forces can redirect the move of a people mass somewhere else. I am sorry, that I doesn't come up with a suitable idea.

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-02T10:27:16Z

Steven Hamoen answered Jul 2, '18 Joerg Vogel commented Jul 5, '18

@Omar Aguilera Rico We have done this in the past with our own developed Personflow library, which is based on a grid approach. We sell this library for a relatively small amount if you would be interested. Here are 3 movies on youtube that show roughly what it can do:

Stadium: Stadium filling and emptying

Airport: Airport simulation

Bridge: Pedestrians ( 20.000) on a bridge

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Patrick Cloutier commented · Jul 02, 2018 at 11:17 AM

Would this module be plug-n-play in an already built version 2018 model? I'm building an hospital people flow model with hundreds of people walking all over the place with AStar but the model deadlocks. In case I can't solve this I will be looking for an alternative way to guide the people through the hospital but I don't want to rebuild the whole model.

My point is, how does your module behave differently than AStar?

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Omar Aguilera Rico Patrick Cloutier commented · Jul 04, 2018 at 03:30 PM

Hello boys. Is there some code that when using "createcopy" for an operator I can add it to the a*Navigator so that I can respect it?

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Patrick Cloutier Omar Aguilera Rico commented · Jul 05, 2018 at 02:05 AM

I have a similar situation where I use People module with Process Flow controlled by AStar.

What I do when I need a new person or staff is use the object Create Person and then I add a custom code box with the following code to connect that person to AStar:

codecontextdragconnection(token.staff,model().find("AStarNavigator"),"A");

Maybe you can use this same code in your model. Or change the way you create new persons.

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