Advanced Systems Lab - Spring 2026

This is the GitLab repository of group 70. Project topic: Social Force Model for Pedestrian Dynamics

The goal of this project was to implement a fast version of Helbing's social force model. The final report includes an analysis and results of the work.

This repository contains all C++ and Python code that was used to generate and analyze the data.

Compilation

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clang++ -O3 -march=native -o main_test_visualisation main.cpp forces.cpp

Compile the code with running the bash script 'src/main/run_simulation.sh'. After compilation was succesfull the user has 3 different option:

1. Benchmark
2. Test
3. Visualization

The flags used are: gcc -lm -O3 -mavx2 -mfma -ffast-math -g

Storing coordinates in a csv

./main_test_visualisation <number of pedestrians> <number of iterations> <csv file>

Visualization

python3 visualization.py <csv file> <mp4 file>

Benchmark

Test