Fire evacuation visualization in nursing homes based on agent and cellular automata  

作　　者：Chen Wang Yutong Tang Mukhtar A.Kassem Heng Li Zhizhan Wu 

机构地区：[1]Director of Intelligence and Automation in Construction Fujian Province Higher-educational Engineering Research Centre,College of Civil Engineering,Huaqiao University,361021,Xiamen,China [2]Intelligence and Automation in Construction Fujian Province Higher-educational Engineering Research Centre,College of Civil Engineering,Huaqiao University,361021,Xiamen,China [3]College of Civil Engineering,Huaqiao University,361021,Xiamen,China [4]Department of Building and Real Estate,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,Hong Kong

出　　处：《Journal of Safety Science and Resilience》2021年第4期181-198,共18页安全科学与韧性（英文）

摘　　要：As China’s population ages and the notion of contemporary people evolves,an increasing number of elderly people opt to spend their final years in a nursing home.Recently,there have been more fires in nursing facilities for the elderly.As a result,using computer simulation technology,this paper creates an evacuation micro-simulation model for the elderly and nursing staff,investigates the impact of psychological characteristics and evacuation behavior of the elderly and nursing staffon fire escape during the fire evacuation process,and designs fire evacuation for nursing homes.Based on the nursing home’s regular evacuation paradigm,the study examines the behavioral elements.To simulate the three models and the influence of various behavioral and psychological features on fire evacuation,the authors utilized the MATLAB software,which is based on Agent theory and cellular automata.The simulation results show that the three models proposed in this study are capable of accurately describing reality.

关 键 词：Nursing home Staff evacuation Agent modeling Cellular automata Normal evacuation Crowded evacuation Panic evacuation 

分 类 号：TU998.1[建筑科学—市政工程]