PHuNAC Model: Emergence of Crowd’s Swarm Behavior

Abstract

The swarm behavior of pedestrians in a crowd, generally, causes a global pattern to emerge. A pedestrian crowd simulation system must have this emergence in order to prove its effectiveness. For this reason, the aim of our work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of our model PHuNAC (Personalities’ Human's Nature of Autonomous Crowds) and also prove that the swarm behavior of pedestrians’ agents in our model allows the emergence of these global patterns. In order to validate our approach, we compared our system with real data. The conducted experiments show that the model is consistent with the various emergent behaviors and thus it provides realistic simulated pedestrian’s behavior.