Kirkland, Joel A., authorMaciejewski, Anthony A., authorIEEE, publisher2015-07-282015-07-282003Kirlkand, Joel A. and Anthony A. Maciejewski, A Simulation of Attempts to Influence Crowd Dynamics, SMC '03 Conference Proceedings: 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, October 5-8, 2003, Washington, D.C.: 4328-4333.http://hdl.handle.net/10217/1356An understanding of how to alter crowd dynamics would have a significant impact in a number of scenarios, e.g., during riots or evacuations. The social force model, where individuals are self-driven particles interacting through social and physical forces, is one approach that has been used to describe crowd dynamics. This work uses the framework of the social force model to study the effects of introducing autonomous robots into crowds. Two simple pedestrian flow problems are used as illustrative examples, namely flow in varying width hallways and lane formation in bidirectional pedestrian flow. Preliminary results indicate that robots capable of inducing an attractive social force are effective at improving pedestrian flow in both of these scenarios.born digitalproceedings (reports)eng©2003 IEEE.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.behavioural scienceshuman computer interactionrobotssocial sciencesText