Simulating and Controlling Civilian Crowds in Robocup Rescue

We present a new civilian crowd simulator for the Robocup Rescue Simulation that allows to represent large numbers of civilians and in which psychologically and socially plausible crowd behavior emerges. As a new challenge for the Rescue Simulation competition, the simulator also allows police agents to indirectly influence crowd behavior by temporarily blocking roads. The simulator can be used as an stand-alone tool for interactive or automatic testing of strategies for crowd control, but will also be integrated into the Rescue Simulation environment.

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