Transportation Strategies for Box-Manipulation in Crowd Simulation

In this paper, we employ two approaches to perform cooperative transportation of boxes in virtual environments with pedestrians. Each box is pushed by two agents. The agents can change their formation while they push the boxes for collision avoidance with the pedestrians. The two approaches are sequence-based and sensor-based. We perform experiments to evaluate the performances of strategies based on these two approaches under different conditions, including the shortest path and the shortest travel time.