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S. J. Wang, S. C. Cao, Q. Wang, L. P. Lian and W. G. Song (2016) Physica a-Statistical Mechanics And Its Applications 457 239-254.
Date: 2017-03-16   Author: SKLFS  ,   Source: SKLFS  ,
 

S. J. Wang, S. C. Cao, Q. Wang, L. P. Lian and W. G. Song (2016) Effect of exit locations on ants escaping a two-exit room stressed with repellent. Journal/Physica a-Statistical Mechanics And Its Applications 457 239-254. [In English]
Web link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2016.03.083
Keywords: ,Dynamic process, Evacuation, Stress conditions, Ant behavior, Symmetry, breaking, FASTER, ORGANIZATION, PEDESTRIANS, EVACUATION, BEHAVIOR, FEATURES

Abstract: In order to investigate the effect of the distance between two exits on ant evacuation efficiency and the behavior of ants escaping from a two-exit room, we conducted ant egress experiments using Camponotus japonicus in multiple situations. We found that the ants demonstrated the phenomenon of "symmetry breaking" in this stress situation. It was also shown that different locations for the exits obviously affected the ants' egress efficiency by measuring the time intervals between individual egress and flow rate in eight repeated experiments, each of which contained five different distance between the two exits. In addition, it is demonstrated that there are differences between the predictions of Social Force Model of pedestrians and the behaviors of ants in stress conditions through comparing some important behavioral features, including position, trajectory, velocity, and density map. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

 
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