Astar travel with and w/o Social Forces Behavior

[lars_jacobsen_ScandiSim]

[ FlexSim 21.0.2 ]

When items (persons) travel using A star, everything works as expected. When I add the Agent System and use social forces, I do not understand why several flow items do not travel.

Without Agent System activated - Travels as expectedTest_2.fsm

With Agent System Activated - No movement

[Jeanette_Fullmer · Accepted solution]

Hello @Lars Christian J2,

From looking at the models given for demonstrating the Agent System, you are supposed to add the persons to the model and not the AStarNavigation. I believe the agent system automatically adds agents to the A Star Navigation when A* Travel Path social force is used.

The other problem was that the shapes that you have people's location set to was part of the A* FR members, so they were being positioned on an object that according to A* they are not supposed to on.

Here is your model.test-2_ v1.fsm

I would specifically look at the Room Evacuation Model from the link above. It does what you are trying to do, but in a simplified way.

Here is a video that goes over the different Agent system models and I found to be very helpful when exploring the Agent Module.

[lars_jacobsen_ScandiSim]

Thanks!