PetroSim – A Framework to Simulate Crowd Behaviors in Panic Situations


SORAIA R. MUSSE1, ANDRE T. DA SILVA1, BRUNO ROTH1, KATIA HARDT1, LEANDRO M. BARROS1, LEANDRO TONIETTO1, MARCELO H. BORBA1, TUERTE A. ROLIM2, LUIZ A. B. FELIPE2 AND RICARDO U. M. MELO2 1PIPCA – PROGRAMA INTERDISCIPLINAR DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM COMPUTAÇÃO APLICADA UNISINOS – Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 93022-00, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil soraiarm@exatas.unisinos.br 2PETROBRAS – UN-RN/CE, Natal, RN, Brazil tuerte@petrobras.com.br


ABSTRACT: This paper presents a framework to simulate the behaviors of crowds in panic situations. The main motivation for this work is to provide to safety engineers the possibility of simulating several aspects of panic situations involving crowds in real time. To accomplish this, we propose a complete framework to model the semantically informed environment as well as the intelligent virtual agents (IVA), which form the crowd who lives in the simulated virtual city. This work includes the integration of many knowledge areas such as VR, behavioral and visualization aspects required to the development of PetroSim.

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