Title
Integrating Run-Time Incidents in a Large-Scale Simulated Urban Environment
Author
de Jong, S.
Klein, A.
Smelik, R.M.
van Wermeskerken, F.J.P.
Contributor
Thangarajah, J. (editor)
Tuyls, K. (editor)
Marsella, S. (editor)
Jonker, C. (editor)
Publication year
2016
Abstract
The domain of Defense, Safety & Security offers interesting applications and research challenges for agent-based simulation of human behavior in urban environments. For example, virtual training of military personnel often requires complex urban scenarios to align with the current nature of operations. Previous research has focused on the simulation of a large population of civilians within an urban environment, introducing techniques such as pattern-of-life and activity generation. We have used this research as a basis for an approach that allows the injection of incidents(e.g., a crowd gathering, a shop lifting with a subsequent arrest) in a running, large-scale urban simulation. Such incidents can be used by an instructor during a training or exercise to teach a trainee to deal with unforeseen circumstances. The incidents are not explicitly scripted, but are generated by a planning algorithm within desired constraints such as what should happen, where,and when. We believe that this approach offers an intuitive and efficient way of specifying scenario-specific exceptions to daily behavior patterns in a representative urban setting. We describe an extendable prototype system aimed at demonstrating the approach. A necessary basis for the prototype system is the generation and simulation
Subject
Human and Operational Modelling
MSG - Modelling Simulation & Gaming
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Safety and Security
Criminology
Defence, Safety and Security
Run-Time incidents
Scenario generation
Urban simulation
Population modeling
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TNO identifier
533685
Publisher
International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Source
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - AAMAS 2016, May 9–13, 2016, Singapore
Document type
conference paper