Multi-agent Simulation of Passenger Evacuation Considering Ship Motions

This paper presents a system for multi-agent simulation for passenger evacuation in case of the inclination of a ship under the storm. Evacuation process depends on many different factors such as environmental properties (e.g. wind velocity, intensity of waves), human behavioral aspects and so on. In order to describe passengers’ behavior in case of emergency evacuation considering the inclination of a ship, we applied a force-based model adapted from multi-agent system. Our approach provides an opportunity to estimate evacuation time depending on intensity of waves, rate of sailing and relative direction. Our proposed model can be coupled with the simulation of ship flooding or fire propagation. Having analyzed the results, these outputs could be applied to design contingency plans to assist the crew members in the frameworks of decision support systems (DSS).