A cooperative multi-agent approach for stabilizing the psychological dynamics of a two-dimensional crowd

  • Authors:

  • K. Spieser;D. E. Davison

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ACC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on American Control Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we extend our earlier work on the stabilization of crowds that are governed by psychological dynamics derived from Le Bon's late nineteenth-century suggestibility theory. Earlier work was restricted to the case where the crowd is one-dimensional, but now a general two-dimensional crowd is considered. The control scheme involves placing within the crowd various control agents who act as sensors, actuators, and processors. We analyze whether stabilization is possible for a given configuration of control agents, and we present an algorithm that positions control agents in a way that guarantees stabilizability. We include analysis of the control agent sensing load and requirements on inter-control-agent communication.