Specification of the lifetime of states in the DEVS formalism by fuzzy controller: Application to the propagation of forest fires

Abstract

The obtained results of the FireSim while simulating the time and behaviour a wildfire can have shown that using the DEVS formalism allows researchers to have a solid base to creating a software that knows exactly how a fire will behave in different circumstances. Coupled with the fuzzy controller accurate life times for the states can be determined furthering and widening the possibilities. Further improvements can be added to this work by using the geographic information that provide more detailed data on different lands such as slopes, types of vegetation and its distribution…etc. to be used in fuzzy controllers more adapted to have the possibility to simulate a fire in its entirety accounted all factors