Abstract
In this paper, we describe a new crowd flow simulation method which combines the multi-agent (MA) with the cellular automata (CA). The features of our simulation method are that the behavior of a crowd is formed by autonomous action of heterogeneous agents, and that the action is interrupted by asynchronous intervention from environment. In this method, each agent is located on a continuous plane, and its position is represented by coordinate of real number. Based on agent attribute parameters, which are different in every agent, and mutual position relations with other agents at that moment, an agent begins to move on the continuous plane. We develop the simulator based on these techniques, and analyze crowd behaviors, in particular, collided crowds ones. By the simulation experiments, we confirmed that using the simulation system implemented by this method, the interesting behavior of the movement of the actual crowd behavior can be reproduced.
