VELOS: A VR platform for ship-evacuation analysis

摘要: ''Virtual Environment for Life On Ships'' (VELOS) is a multi-user Virtual Reality (VR) system that aims to support designers assess (early in the design process) passenger and crew activities on ship both normal hectic conditions of operations improve accordingly. This article focuses presenting novel features VELOS related its VR evacuation-specific functionalities. These include: (i) capability multiple users' immersion active participation evacuation process, (ii) real-time interactivity making on-the-fly alterations environment events crowd-behavior parameters, (iii) agents avatars move continuously decks, (iv) integrated framework simplified advanced method analysis according IMO/MSC 1033 Circular, (v) enrichment geometrical model with topological suitable analysis, (vi) efficient interfaces dynamic specification handling required heterogeneous input data, (vii) post-processing calculated agent trajectories extracting useful information process. functionality illustrated using three test cases ro-ro ship.