A* Evacuations

Team

Software Engineering Department

2023

Monmouth University

While I was pursuing my graduate degree I worked as a research assistant for the Software Engineering department.

The goal was to apply the A* pathfinding algorithm to an evacuation simulation by adding additional parameters for traffic and obstacle avoidance.

The paper is linked here, and images can be found below. The project files are available for download here

Balanced Algorithm

Path Penalty Only

Static Penalty Only

Static Penalty Visualized