On modeling and evolutionary optimization of nonlinearly coupled pedestrian interactions

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Abstract

Social force based modeling of pedestrians is an advanced microscopic approach for simulating the dynamics of pedestrian motion. The developments presented in this paper extend the widespread social force model to include improved velocity-dependent interaction forces. This modeling considers interactions of pedestrians with both static and dynamic obstacles, which can be also be effectively used to model pedestrian-vehicle interactions. The superiority of the proposed model is shown by comparing it with existing ones considering several thought experiments. Moreover, we apply an evolutionary algorithm to solve the model calibration problem, considering two real-world instances. The objective function for this problem comes from a set of highly nonlinear coupled differential equations. An interesting feature that came out is that the solutions are multi-modal. This makes this problem an excellent example for evolutionary algorithms and other such population based heuristics algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplicatons 2010
Subtitle of host publicationEvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Proceedings
Pages21-30
Number of pages10
EditionPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
EventEvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, EvoApplicatons 2010 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 7 Apr 20109 Apr 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume6024 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceEvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, EvoApplicatons 2010
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period7/04/109/04/10

Keywords

  • Complex systems
  • Microscopic modeling
  • Optimization

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