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This site is part of the GimmeManuals. Skip to content Home Search Submit. Clicking on the "view full screen" button will take you to a full screen version of the manual. Something Wrong? It runs on a 3. Following table shows available keys and values for the elevators.

Lines are considered to be delimited by spaces and commas. Strings containing spaces and commas should be enclosed in double-quotes. The following three VERT definitions are identical to inferno. Chapter 8 of the Pathfinder User Manual describes how to save camera positions Views that can be recalled later and to create Camera Tours that allow flythrough animations of a model.

The data defining these views and tours is contained in the view. Pathfinder computes a maximum walking speed for occupants in smoke based on the relationships in Fridolf et al. This is described by the formula:. The multiplication factor is given by SFPE equation The design of this equation has the consequence of giving non-zero values for low-oxygen hypoxia even in conditions considered to be safe.

At an oxygen concentration of For reference, OSHA places the low-oxygen limit for safe working conditions at The default value is In this method a Voronoi diagram is created to divide space among occupants.

These densities are then combined using a weighted average, where the weights are the portion of the measurement area that intersects the Voronoi cell. Occupants whose location is up to 1. The 1. AI Game Programming Wisdom. Firth, Paul. Fruin, J. Pedestrian Planning and Design. Elevator World. Hart, Peter E.

Nilsson, and Bertram Raphael. Systems Science and Cybernetics 4: — Johnson, Geraint. Smoothing a Navigation Mesh Path. Korhonen, Timo. Sixth Edition. Kuligowski, Erica D.

Peacock, and Bryan L. Purser, D. Woodhead Publishing. Reinolds, C. Springer-Verlag New York. Springer International Publishing. Steffen, B. Section Menu Documentation PyroSim PDF Version. This is a flow model, where walking speeds are determined by occupant density within each room and flow through doors is controlled by door width.

Steering mode Chapter 6 Based on the idea of inverse steering behaviors. Figure 4. Extracted navigation mesh. Idle goals Goals in which an occupant must wait at a location until an event occurs, such as a time-interval elapses or an elevator reaches a discharge floor. Seek goals Goals in which an occupant moves toward a destination, such as a waypoint, room, elevator, or exit. Instantaneous goals Goals which occur in one timestep. If the previous seek goal was a waypoint , the occupant tries to stay in the radius of the waypoint.

If the previous seek goal was a room including an elevator , the occupant tries to stay in the room, away from the doors, allowing other occupants to enter. If there was no previous seek goal, the occupant can move anywhere along the mesh.

Assist Occupants Seek The occupant joins an assisted evacuation team and assists clients, see Section 8. Change Behavior Instant Instructs an occupant to change their Behavior to a new Behavior picked randomly from a Behavior distribution.

Change Profile Instant Instructs an occupant to change to a different Profile picked randomly from a Profile distribution. Detach from Assistants Instant Causes an assisted client to detach from their assistants. Fill Room Idle Causes the agent to seek a location in the room away from all active doors, see Room-filling. This goal is not explicitly added to a Behavior; it follows the Goto Room and Wait action and happens while they are waiting.

This goal is implemented in Pathfinder through a combination of a room-seek goal and an idle goal. As discussed in Chapter 9 , there is a virtual pickup room representing the elevator at each floor to which the elevator attaches.

The room-seek portion of the elevator goal points to one or more of these virtual rooms. The virtual rooms are selected based on the location of the previous seek goal. If not, the next floor down is tested. This continues until the bottom floor is reached. If no elevator connection is found, the search continues with the next floors up from the previous seek goal. This continues until an elevator pickup room is found that connects to the previous seek goal. Once an occupant enters a virtual elevator pickup room, they enter an idle state and wait.

Goto Exit Seek A door or set of doors is defined that the occupant seeks. The goal is reached once the occupant crosses one of the exit doors. Additionally, the occupant is removed from the simulation.

Goto Room Seek A room or set of rooms is defined that the occupant should seek. This goal is reached once the occupant crosses a door leading into one of the rooms.

Goto Waypoint Seek A point is defined on the mesh along with a radius. The occupant attempts to reach the point. The waypoint is reached once the occupant is within the radius of the point. Wait Idle The occupant enters an idle state and waits until a timer elapses. Wait Until Idle The occupant enters an idle state and waits until a specified value of simulation time.

Wait for Assistance Idle The occupant stands still until all attached occupant positions are filled by assistants. See Section 8. Goto Rooms — this tells the client to go to the refuge rooms. Fill Room — see Room-filling below.

Detach from Assistants — this allows assistants to detach and continue helping other clients. Obtain a door distance map. Determine an ideal seek direction to move the occupant toward the furthest unoccupied location away from a set of doors. Decide whether to actually move in the ideal seek direction.

Figure 7. Sub-divided room for door distance map Figure 8. Door distance map. Steering Mode uses a combination of steering mechanisms and collision handling to control how the occupant follows their seek curve.

If the seek goal is in the current room, it is added to the list of local targets. Choose a local target based on local and global knowledge of the model and occupant preferences. This is discussed in Section 4. Move toward the local target using path generation and path following , periodically repeating these steps until the final seek goal is reached.

If the target is the current seek goal, this time is 0. The following are also included in the global travel time: Door wait times, including those for local doors Room speed modifiers Elevator discharge time see Section 9.

This value also helps to prevent occupants from frequently switching local targets. This factor causes the travel time costs to increase as the occupant travels further in a room. It has the effect of causing occupants to prefer doors with shorter overall distances to shorter times the further they travel in a room. This is a simplistic way to model fatigue and helps to dampen the frequency at which occupants switch local targets.

The next local door the occupant selects may not lead back into any previous rooms. If this rule eliminates all options e.

Two waypoints are tracked: a current waypoint that is initially the furthest waypoint on the path that defines a bend in the path a next waypoint that defines the next bend in the path.

The occupant checks if the next waypoint should become the current. This is determined by checking if the occupant crossed an infinite line connecting the current waypoint with the next waypoint.

If the line is crossed, the next waypoint becomes the current and a new next waypoint is determined. The occupant checks for the need to re-path. Occupants must re-path if they cannot see a straight line to their current waypoint or if it is time to re-evaluate the current door choice according to locally quickest. A seek curve is generated to define the desired motion. In SFPE Mode , this curve is merely a straight line segment from the current position to the current waypoint.

In Steering Mode , this is a quadratic B-spline using the current position, the current waypoint, and a control point that is projected back along the direction from the current waypoint to the next waypoint. The occupant attempts to move along the tangent to the current seek curve.

This movement is strongly influenced by the movement mode SFPE or Steering and is discussed in the next sections. Figure Paths and Waypoints in Steering Mode. Max Room Density 0. Pathfinder uses room density to determine movement speed and door flow rate. When occupants queue at doors, they will not be able to leave the queue on their turn unless doing so will keep the density in the next room below this value.

Boundary Layer 0. If this flag is enabled, specific flow for doors is calculated based on the occupant density in adjacent rooms. This calculation is explained in Section 5. If this flag is enabled, doors always use maximum specific flow.

If the occupant is considered to be a lane leader, the cost is 0. An occupant is a lane leader if there are no occupants in front who are not in counterflow. If a test direction does not lead to counterflow, the cost is 0. If any intersections are found, the cost is calculated the same as in avoid occupants except with the expanded occupant radius and adjusted positions. Otherwise, the cost is 0. Seeking The occupant is trying to follow a path to some destination.

Idling The occupant is waiting for a specified amount of time. Occupants are headed toward a similar, conflicting waypoint. Occupants are headed toward opposing waypoints in a crowded hall.

Merging occupants squeezed together Figure Counterflow occupants squeezed together. The occupant performs their steering behavior as described previously and determines that the lowest cost direction is to either stand still or to move counter to their desired steering direction because of another occupant. The occupant performs a "free pass" test as discussed below.

If the occupant obtains a free pass, they continue the next step. Otherwise, they return the no-progress steering direction. The occupant recalculates steering with a locally-elevated priority. A locally-elevated priority is one that makes the occupant appear to have a higher priority to others within the same priority level, but to other occupants with higher priority levels, the occupant still appears to have lower priority.

If the occupant has not yet set a timer, they will return the no-progress result. If they have set a timer, they skip to the next step. If the timer has expired, however, they skip to the next step. The occupant maintains raised-priority and enters a state in which they can pass through the other occupants that are immediately in their way.

The other occupant is a lower priority. The other occupant is the same priority and has a lower chance of reaching the intersection of their paths before the occupant being considered can. In steering mode, the flow limit can only be specified as a fixed value. It cannot be based on room densities as in SFPE mode. The actual achieved flow rate in steering mode will often be less than the specified limit. This is due to the acceleration model and occupant avoidance used in steering mode.

When an occupant is stopped at a door, they have to accelerate again to leave the doorway and allow another occupant to enter. Occupants passing through a flow-limited door in steering mode may encounter a slight slow-down at the door threshold even if they do not need to be held at the door to achieve the flow limit. This is because each occupant always needs to be enqueued at the door when they cross the threshold in order for the limiting logic to progress properly.

This enqueuing step stops the occupant completely. This slowdown effect is dependent on the simulation time-step size. It will be worse for large time steps. An occupant begins the Assist Occupants Goal and joins an assisted evacuation team.

The assistant checks whether there are any current occupants or future occupants from an occupant source who will ever become clients of this team. If this condition holds true, the assistant continues to step 3. Otherwise, the assistant skips the following steps, leaves the team, and continues with their next goal. The assistant enters an idle state and waits for clients to request assistance from the team.

No other client meets criteria a or b , and the client is closer than any others. The assistant offers to assist the selected client. If the client rejects the offer, the assistant repeats steps 4 and 5. The client may reject if they have received more offers at once than they had remaining attached positions. The assistant heads toward the chosen client. The assistant becomes passive and waits for the client to detach from them.

The assistant repeats steps 2 through 8. Idle Keeps the assistant in an idle state until a client has been chosen Attach to agent goal Engaged once a client has been chosen.

When the assistant reaches this position, they become passive. Passive mode goal Once the assistant is attached to the client, they turn passive. This means that their movement will depend on the movement of the client.

The client will give the assistant an updated position to navigate toward and the assistant only needs to modify its velocity vector in a way that moves it to this given position. The assistant stays in this state until the client detaches. An occupant starts a Wait for Assistance goal, becoming a client of a set of teams.

The client waits indefinitely for an assistant from one of the teams to offer assistance. From all of the occupants who have offered assistance, the client chooses the closest ones and assigns them to the remaining empty attached occupant positions. If there are any extra offers, they are rejected. The client repeats steps 2 and 3 until all attached occupant positions are filled. The client expands their vehicle shape to include the locations of the attached assistants.

This change is not visible in the results view, but can be observed in the debug simulation view The client ends the Wait for Assistance goal. If the client encounters a Goto Exits goal, they detach from all assistants shortly before going through the exit and then proceed to go through the exit on their own, even if they cannot move without assistance. They are then removed from the simulation. If the client encounters a Detach from Assistants goal, the client detaches from all assistants and continues on to the next goal on their own.

If the client accomplishes all goals, they detach from all assistants and are removed from the simulation. Fill Room — this indicates that the client should move away from incoming doors and continue moving until an obstacle is encountered.

This allows more occupants to fill the room. Pre-move agents and goals Update agents Update goals. Pre-move agent The behavior of assistants changes in this step only if they are in the passive mode, in which case their movement calculation is based on the position required by the clients.

The behavior of clients does not change. Pre-move goals In this step the agents are allowed to act on each other. If an assistant decides to assist a client, they make a reservation with that client. Similarly, if they decide to stop assisting the client, the assistant cancels their reservation. When a client receives a reservation, they store it in a list of reservations. Note that the order of this list is not deterministic at this time.

The assistants also re-compute their distances to all possible clients and possibly select a new goal.

Update agents The clients compute new positions for the assistants. They also resolve the reservations in the following way: The list of reservations is sorted based on the distances from the assistants to the client.

The first reservations in the sorted list are chosen for the open vehicle positions. The reservation list is cleared. The assistants check their reservations to find out whether they have been assigned a spot to attach to. If so and the client is fully reserved, the assistant sets the new goal towards the client. If the client is not fully reserved, the assistant has to decide whether to stay with this client or leave and go help other assistants.

This decision making is done as follows: The assistant finds the closest other partially occupied client. If the assistant did not find any other partially occupied clients, they will search for clients that only require assistance of a single agent and reserve a spot with it in the pre-move step.

Also in this step the assistants can turn passive when attached to a client. This cannot be done in the pre-move step, because agents consider the passive state of other agents when deciding about their movement. An occupant enters the elevator. This step takes the longest on the first time step because each occupant must find a path to their goal. Increment the current time step. Move each occupant.

This involves several sub-steps: Calculate the velocity for the current time. If steering mode is on, this will calculate a desired steering force from the desired velocity, and then use integration to calculate the actual velocity. In SFPE mode, this will simply be set to the desired velocity. If collision avoidance is turned on, detect potential collisions, and modify the desired velocity to avoid the collisions. Integrate the final velocity to find the maximum travel distance, and travel along the mesh until this distance is reached or until the earliest collision.