Mr. HOMBE Masafumi receives IEEE ICA2023 Best Student Poster Award at The 7th IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA2023).
Category：Award｜Publishing : February 13, 2024
Award winner
Mr. HOMBE Masafumi, Creative Engineering Program, Department of Engineering
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA2023)
Best Student Poster Award
Award-winning research
"Examination and Evaluation of Robot-Guided Evacuation Method Considering Congestion at Stairs"
This research aims to make use of congestion on staircases to enable safer and quicker evacuation during indoor evacuation guidance at universities and other institutions. Based on our existing results, we propose a method of using congestion for more efficient evacuation. Experiments were carried out using a multi-agent simulation to simulate a disaster in the University's Building 2, and showed that the proposed method of evacuation guidance is faster and safer than the existing method.
Award winner's comments
I am very honoured and happy to receive this award. I would like to thank everyone involved in this research, including my supervisor, Prof. Uchiya, who has supported me, Prof. Takumi and Prof. Funase, who gave me feedback in seminars, and the members of the research group and students in my laboratory who gave me various advice. Encouraged by the award, I would like to make further progress in this research and contribute to the journal.
