This project was created as part of my Final Year Project towards my Undergraduate degree at Aston University supervised by Dr Maria Chli.
The project delivers a complete application that allows Architects and AEC professionals to perform simulations of emergency evacuation scenarios. The application was created using the Unity Engine and integrates with Speckle to provide interoperability with Autodesk Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, and more.
See Notice.md for attribution of third-party assets.
The latest version of the software can be downloaded from the product Releases.
Currently, builds only target Windows. The software can be run on any system that meets Unity's system requirements for Unity 2020 LTS.
The Unity application can be edited and compiled from source using Unity 2020.3.15f. The Results Viewer application can be compiled using Jetbrains Rider or Visual Studio.
Building models can be imported through Speckle streams. Instructions for how to install and login to the Speckle manager can be found here. Once logged-in, Speckle streams can be imported from within the evacuation application. Instructions on how to create streams from within Autodesk Revit can be found here.
The project provides three example buildings of varying complexity to experiment with, without the need for setting up the Speckle Manager.
Currently, the project has two different agent behavioral models, a model that follows the Social Force Model (SFM) (Helbing et al 1995) and Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles (RVO).
The parameters used for SFM have been calibrated using the values given by Moussaïd et al (2009).
Upon completion of the simulation, a heat-map of agent density will be displayed and a graph showing a frequency plot of agent evacuation times. The total evacuation time and mean evacuation time shall also be displayed, and a JSON file containing the agent states and every time step in the simulation will be outputted to %appdata%/../LocalLow/Jedd Morgan/Crowd Evacuation Simulation/.
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