Implementation of a Reactive Model for Responding to a Trembling Earthquake: A Perspective from Virtual Reality and Multiagent Systems

We present a virtual reality simulation of an evacuation caused by a trembling earthquake in a secondary school. The simulation is based on artificial intelligence for which a mathematical model is implemented that controls the behavior of agents that represent the school students in the virtual stage. The simulation allows the interaction with the agents on stage by using the gyroscope of a smartphone while roaming around the stage and thus observing the behavior of the agents when the human stampede occurs. The simulation can be executed either on a computer or on a smartphone. Once again, the importance of artificial intelligence to prevent losses of human lives is demonstrated.