A method for an automatic generation of paths for evacuation drill simulator

Abstract

Since walk-through simulator based on virtual space used for evacuation drill provides too much degree of freedom to move in the virtual space, if passable path in a road becomes more complicated its beginner user often encounters a serious trouble in moving through it, he/she can not move the rood as intended. This problem can be solved by setting only one path per every rood section and by enabling the user to move in the virtual space with several simple operations such as forward-moving and stop. On the other hand, considering about progress of aging society, evacuation with a handicapped person sitting in a wheelchair needs to be assumed. In this case, the size of the moving-object should be taken into account. In this paper, a method for an automatic generation of paths on a road with scattered rubbles in which both size of the moving-object and its moving-attitude are considered is proposed.