This paper studies the problem of a large group of individuals that has to get to a safety exit in the context of high-stress emergency evacuations. We model this problem as a discrete-state continuous-time game, where the players update their strategies to reach the exit within a defined time horizon, whilst avoiding undesirable situations such as congestion and being trampled. The proposed model builds on crowd dynamics in a two-strategy game theoretic context, which we extend to include aspects of crowd behavior originating in sociology and psychology, and in the analogous studies performed in immersive virtual environments. The main contribution of this paper is threefold: i) we propose a novel game formulation of the model in terms of the population distribution across three strategies, and provide a link with prospect theory; ii) we study the equilibria of the system and their stability via Lyapunov stability theory of nonlinear systems; iii) we extend the model to a multi-population setting, where each population represents the group of players at a certain distance from the exit.


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    Title :

    Evolutionary Game Dynamics for Crowd Behavior in Emergency Evacuations


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    Publication date :

    2020-12-14


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    Mason , D M , Stella , L & Bauso , D 2020 , Evolutionary Game Dynamics for Crowd Behavior in Emergency Evacuations . in 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2020 . , 9304111 , Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , vol. 2020-December , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , pp. 1672-1677 , 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2020 , Virtual, Jeju Island , Korea, Republic of , 14/12/2020 . https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9304111



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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