Building exploration with leeches Hirudo verbana
Andrew Adamatzky, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis

TL;DR
This study investigates how leeches explore building layouts to inform rescue robot design and understand human behavior in low-visibility emergencies, using biological models to simulate exploration patterns.
Contribution
The paper introduces leeches as a biological model for building exploration, highlighting their potential as soft-bodied rescue robots and analyzing exploration efficiency in complex geometries.
Findings
Leeches exhibit adaptive exploration behaviors in constrained environments.
Exploration efficiency depends on pathway complexity and geometrical features.
Leeches' behavior offers insights into human responses under stress and limited visibility.
Abstract
Safe evacuation of people from building and outdoor environments, and search and rescue operations, always will remain actual in course of all socio-technological developments. Modern facilities offer a range of automated systems to guide residents towards emergency exists. The systems are assumed to be infallible. But what if they fail? How occupants not familiar with a building layout will be looking for exits in case of very limited visibility where tactile sensing is the only way to assess the environment? Analogous models of human behaviour, and socio-dynamics in general, are provided to be fruitful ways to explore alternative, or would-be scenarios. Crowd, or a single person, dynamics could be imitated using particle systems, reaction-diffusion chemical medium, electro-magnetic fields, or social insects. Each type of analogous model offer unique insights on behavioural patterns of…
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