Data for Model Building and Validation for Non-lethal Weapons and Crowd Management: Initial Efforts

Abstract

There have been many efforts to create a simulation of crowd behavior using existing platforms. However, all efforts to date have been fatally flawed by the lack of crowd data for building the model, and the lack of methods and means for verification and validation of the crowd simulation. In the past two years the Target Behavioral Response Laboratory has collected multilevel crowd data and information on 200 individuals' behaviors in 15 crowd experimental runs. The basic paradigm is a rock throwing crowd facing a control force wielding a variety of simulated non-lethal weapons, including simulated hand-to-hand combat and stand-off weapons. This presentation demonstrates the theory of how to leverage this large archive of data, first to build the model, then to verify and validate crowd simulation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 04, 2014
Accession Number
ADA616358

Entities

People

  • Elizabeth Sibolboro Mezzacappa
  • Gladstone V. Reid
  • Gordon Cooke
  • John Riedener
  • Kevin Tevis
  • Robert M. DeMarco

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Computational Modeling
  • Computer Simulations
  • Environment
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Operations
  • Knowledge Management
  • Nonlethal Weapons
  • Optical Tracking
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Validation
  • Verification
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.