Incorporating Cellular Automaton based Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation and Genetic Algorithm for Spatial Layout Design Optimization

摘要

Autonomous spatial layout design had become the prominent applications for early planning process for a space arrangement. The available spatial layout design applications had focused on the structural and functional demands for a trendy, cultural influences and scalable spatial design. The previous research on the autonomous spatial layout design had proved that the Genetic Algorithm (GA) with full-fledged of operators are able to design an optimal spatial layout that is scalable for the space utilization. However, in these recent years, due to many occurrences of emergency incidents, the security assurance of the pedestrian to evacuate from the spatial layout during panic situation had become the main focus in designing a spatial layout. Hence, this research had proposed the pedestrian movement simulation using Cellular Automata (CA) with the Moore Neighborhood transition movement direction as the objective function for optimizing the GA operators based spatial layout design. The results have shown that the CA based pedestrian movement simulation was able to optimize the GA operators based spatial layout design in designing a feasible and scalable space arrangement with low-risk of pedestrian casualties.