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13: Example 2: Boarding a Passenger Airliner (Decision Making)

Chapter 13

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The second example attempts to answer the question, “What is the most efficient way to load passengers onto an airplane?”

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  1. Aircraft Loading
    1. Microsimulation
    2. Microsimulation Solution to Loading Problems
  2. System Analysis
  3. System Synthesis
    1. Interference
      1. Isle Seat Interference
      2. Middle Seat interference
      3. Middle and Isle interference
      4. Isle Interference
    2. Delays in the System
  4. Implementation
    1. The Simulation Framework
    2. The Passenger
      1. Waypoints and Paths
      2. States in the Simulation – The Finite State Machine
    3. Timing and Organization – The Agent
      1. Other Details
    4. The GreenFoot Simulation
  5. Verification & Validation
  6. Summary
    1. Concepts
    2. Terminology
  7. References, Notes & Further Resources

Images

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Figure 13-1: One configuration of an Airbus A320 passenger aircraft. This is the version that will be used in the simulation.
Figure 13-2: Ttypes of interference. (a) Aisle seat interference. (b) Middle seat interference. (c) Middle and aisle interference. (d) Aisle interference.
Figure 13-3: The path that a passenger must follow through the Airbus is shown here. Moving along the straightest path on the image is not possible in the real situation as there are bulkheads and seats in the way.
Figure 13-4: A finite state machine describing games states involving a fight with a dragon.
Figure 13-5: The FSA for the loading simulation. This makes the simulation much easier to finally implement.
Figure 13-6: The aircraft loading simulation as implemented in GreenFoot.