Simulation of Emergency Evacuation in Civil Aircraft Based on Multi-agent and Cellular Automata Technology

Abstract

Emergency evacuation has been and will continue to be an important research field of civil aircraft cabin safety. A typical civil aircraft cabin model and occupant model which meets the airworthiness regulation requirements are developed to simulate the emergency evacuation by using multi-agent and cellular automata theory. The situations of four different exit configurations are simulated for emergency evacuation. The emergency evacuation time and optimal performance statistic (OPS) are analyzed by simulating emergency evacuation to determine the optimal configuration. The simulation results show that the evacuation times are less than 90 s for the four different situations, and the evacuation time is shortest when the same side exits of fuselage section are opened, which has provided recommended principles for full-scale evacuation demonstration test, and the evacuation efficiency can be improved by designing the reasonable emergency evacuation procedures.