Study on the application of unity software in emergency evacuation simulation for elder

Chiu, Yung-Piao; Shiau, Yan-Chyuan

doi:10.1007/s10015-016-0277-6

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“…Other studies have proven Unity to be beneficial in evacuation analyses. 33,34 Our validation process involved a series of tests that measured the flow rate through an open doorway. The real-world width of the door is 0.85 m; thus, the model was scaled accordingly.…”

Section: Serious Gamesmentioning

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Modeling evacuation in institutional space: Linking three-dimensional data capture, simulation, analysis, and visualization workflows for risk assessment and communication

Lochhead

Hedley

2017

Information Visualization

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This article presents exploratory research to develop new workflows that address the challenges of adequately capturing the geometry and topology of complex institutional spaces, the analysis of prescriptive evacuation plans, and the simulation of human movement and behavior in emergency scenarios. We present a collection of geovisual analytical environments that were developed to permit new ways to view and assess risk, evacuation, and human movement. Part of this research considers how different approaches to the representation of complex institutional space, using three-dimensional capture technologies at multiple resolutions (or derived from conventional formats, such as building plans), have implicit advantages or liabilities in the analysis of risk and human evacuation. We combine three-dimensional data capture methods with geographical information science theory, three-dimensional game engines, three-dimensional evacuation simulations and spatial analyses that address the variability of campus populations, and draw upon three-dimensional modeling and photogrammetry for the assessment of real-world features in digital space. The outcome of this research demonstrates agile workflows that address emergency planning requirements, but could also enable enhanced visual analysis and interactive learning by all campus citizens. Furthermore, this work reveals key considerations and limitations associated with the dynamic nature of evacuation events and the static environments in which they have been simulated.

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Section: Serious Gamesmentioning

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Modeling evacuation in institutional space: Linking three-dimensional data capture, simulation, analysis, and visualization workflows for risk assessment and communication

Lochhead

Hedley

2017

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“…All nodes are identified, and the longest indicates the optimal position of the node. The authors of this study have employed the Unity software to complete a series of fruitful research on topics such as landslide simulation, 18,19 fire evacuation simulation, 20 evacuation simulation for older adults, 21 and house sales systems. 22…”

Section: Simulating Evacuations Using Softwarementioning

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Study on evacuation simulation under crowd-diversion condition

Chiu

Shiau

Lai

2018

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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With the increasing number of domestic buildings, the importance of safety evacuation in case of fire in the buildings has been aware. Occupants in a building will crowd at exit(s) when they evacuate in disasters. The content of this study includes the following: (1) to conduct a literature review on severe stampedes in history, identifying the number of casualties, and to explore existing research on crowd evacuation; (2) to examine the applicability of software packages EXODUS and Unity for simulating occupant evacuation using them for simulations under identical conditions; and (3) to construct simulated evacuation environments using Unity and perform simulations with different combinations of occupant number, space size, exit size, and flow diverter size. The simulation results found that placing a flow diverter in front of the exit could reduce the evacuation time effectively. The best result was observed when the width of the door is close to the width of the flow diverter; it can reduce the evacuation time by about 25%. When more than 60 people were emptying through an exit below 120 cm width, the blocking happened regardless of whether a flow diverter was placed.

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The Role of Simulation in the Context of Industry 4.0 in Building Evacuation

Ferreira,

Costa

et al. 2024

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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Study on the application of unity software in emergency evacuation simulation for elder

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Modeling evacuation in institutional space: Linking three-dimensional data capture, simulation, analysis, and visualization workflows for risk assessment and communication

Modeling evacuation in institutional space: Linking three-dimensional data capture, simulation, analysis, and visualization workflows for risk assessment and communication

Study on evacuation simulation under crowd-diversion condition

The Role of Simulation in the Context of Industry 4.0 in Building Evacuation

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