Pedestrian dynamics: feedback control of crowd evacuation

Effective evacuation of people from closed spaces is an extremely important topic, since it can save real lives in emergency situations that can be broughtabout by natural and human made disasters. Usually there are static maps posted at various places at buildings that illustrate routes that should be taken during emergencies. However, when disasters happen, some of these routes mightnot be valid because of structural problems due to the disaster itself and more importantly because of the distribution of congestion of people spread overthe area. The average flow of traffic depends on the traffic density. Therefore, if all the people follow the same route, or follow a route without knowingthe congestion situation, they can end up being part of the congestion which results in very low flow rate or worse a traffic jam. First book on pedestriandynamics and crowd evacuation. Presents a new approach to model the evacuation system based on partial differential equations. Design of feedback control in both PDE and ODE setting in a single book. INDICE: Traffic Flow Theory For 1-D.- Crowd Models for 2-D.- Numerical Methods.- Feedback Linearization (1D Patches).- Intelligent Evacuation Systems.- Discretized Feedback Control.- Discretized Optimal Control.- Distributed Feedback Control 1D.- Distributed Feedback Control 2D.- Robust Feedback Control.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-75559-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés