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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges Open
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery of goods, security and surveillan…
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges Open
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery of goods, security and surveillanc…
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Collaborative Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: Planning, Coordination, Perception, and Active Vision Open
Search and rescue (SAR) operations can take significant advantage from supporting autonomous or teleoperated robots and multi-robot systems. These can aid in mapping and situational assessment, monitoring and surveillance, establishing com…
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Accurate estimation of influenza epidemics using Google search data via ARGO Open
Significance Big data generated from the Internet have great potential in tracking and predicting massive social activities. In this article, we focus on tracking influenza epidemics. We propose a model that utilizes publicly available Goo…
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Applications of drone in disaster management: A scoping review Open
The use of drones has rapidly evolved over the past decade involving a variety of fields ranging from agriculture, commercial and becoming increasingly used in disaster management or humanitarian aid. Unfortunately, the evidence of its use…
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Voronoi-Based Multi-Robot Autonomous Exploration in Unknown Environments via Deep Reinforcement Learning Open
Autonomous exploration is an important application of multi-vehicle systems, where a team of networked robots are coordinated to explore an unknown environment collaboratively. This technique has earned significant research interest due to…
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UAV-assisted disaster management: Applications and open issues Open
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Multipurpose UAV for search and rescue operations in mountain avalanche events Open
This paper presents a multipurpose UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) for mountain rescue operations. The multi-rotors based flying platform and its embedded avionics are designed to meet environmental requirements for mountainous terrain such …
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The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics Open
Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents, assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for deployment in real‐world environments. Postdisaster scenarios are a…
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LSAR: Multi-UAV Collaboration for Search and Rescue Missions Open
In this paper, we consider the use of a team of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to accomplish a search and rescue (SAR) mission in the minimum time possible while saving the maximum number of people. A novel technique for the SAR …
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Search and Rescue: A Survey Open
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexibility, mobility, and accessibility in various fields, including search and rescue (SAR) operations. The use of UAVs in SAR can greatly enhance the t…
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A Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Assisting Avalanche Search and Rescue Operations with UAV Imagery Open
Following an avalanche, one of the factors that affect victims’ chance of survival is the speed with which they are located and dug out. Rescue teams use techniques like trained rescue dogs and electronic transceivers to locate victims. Ho…
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Autonomous, Vision‐based Flight and Live Dense 3D Mapping with a Quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicle Open
The use of mobile robots in search‐and‐rescue and disaster‐response missions has increased significantly in recent years. However, they are still remotely controlled by expert professionals on an actuator set‐point level, and they would be…
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Unsupervised Human Detection with an Embedded Vision System on a Fully Autonomous UAV for Search and Rescue Operations Open
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a primary role in a plethora of technical and scientific fields owing to their wide range of applications. In particular, the provision of emergency services during the occurrence of a crisis event is a…
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UAV Computing-Assisted Search and Rescue Mission Framework for Disaster and Harsh Environment Mitigation Open
Disasters are crisis circumstances that put human life in jeopardy. During disasters, public communication infrastructure is particularly damaged, obstructing Search And Rescue (SAR) efforts, and it takes significant time and effort to re-…
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A Camera-Based Target Detection and Positioning UAV System for Search and Rescue (SAR) Purposes Open
Wilderness search and rescue entails performing a wide-range of work in complex environments and large regions. Given the concerns inherent in large regions due to limited rescue distribution, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based frameworks…
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Migrant rescue as organized hypocrisy: EU maritime missions offshore Libya between humanitarianism and border control Open
In November 2014, Frontex started its Southern Mediterranean border monitoring operation Triton, followed in June 2015 by the Common Security and Defence Policy anti-smuggling mission EU Naval Force Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR Med) ‘Sophia’. B…
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Advances in real‐world applications for legged robots Open
This paper provides insight into the application of the quadrupedal robot ANYmal in outdoor missions of industrial inspection (autonomous robot for gas and oil sites [ARGOS] challenge) and search and rescue (European Robotics League (ERL) …
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A survey of cyber security threats and solutions for UAV communications and flying ad-hoc networks Open
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a rapidly evolving technology, and being highly mobile, UAV systems are able to cooperate with each other to accomplish a wide range of different tasks. UAVs can be used in commercial applications, such …
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UAV-Based Structural Damage Mapping: A Review Open
Structural disaster damage detection and characterization is one of the oldest remote sensing challenges, and the utility of virtually every type of active and passive sensor deployed on various air- and spaceborne platforms has been asses…
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UAV Deployment Exercise for Mapping Purposes: Evaluation of Emergency Response Applications Open
Exploiting the decrease of costs related to UAV technology, the humanitarian community started piloting the use of similar systems in humanitarian crises several years ago in different application fields, i.e., disaster mapping and informa…
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A Detailed Survey and Future Directions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Potential Applications Open
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have gained widespread interest in civilian and military applications, which has led to the development of novel UAVs that can perform various operations. UAVs are aircraft t…
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Coordinated Navigation of Surface and Underwater Marine Robotic Vehicles for Ocean Sampling and Environmental Monitoring Open
Water pollution generated by accidental spill of hazardous materials is a growing problem worldwide. There is an urgent need for a tool that would help environmental response teams perform rapid understanding of the location and the extent…
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Cooperative Path Planning for Heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles in a Search-and-Track Mission Aiming at an Underwater Target Open
It is an effective way to execute a complicated mission by cooperating unmanned vehicles. This paper focuses on a search- and-track (SAT) mission for an underwater target, and the mission is implemented by combining an unmanned aerial vehi…
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Search and rescue with autonomous flying robots through behavior-based cooperative intelligence Open
A swarm of autonomous flying robots is implemented in simulation to cooperatively gather situational awareness data during the first few hours after a major natural disaster. In computer simulations, the swarm is successful in locating ove…
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Path-Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Environment Complexity Considerations: A Survey Open
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to make a significant impact in a range of scenarios where it is too risky or too costly to rely on human labour. Fleets of autonomous UAVs, which complete tasks collaboratively while mana…
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NimbRo Rescue: Solving Disaster‐response Tasks with the Mobile Manipulation Robot Momaro Open
Robots that solve complex tasks in environments too dangerous for humans to enter are desperately needed, e.g., for search and rescue applications. We describe our mobile manipulation robot Momaro, with which we participated successfully i…
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UAV Autonomous Target Search Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in Complex Disaster Scene Open
In recent years, artificial intelligence has played an increasingly important role in the field of automated control of drones. After AlphaGo used Intensive Learning to defeat the World Go Championship, intensive learning gained widespread…
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Active Autonomous Aerial Exploration for Ground Robot Path Planning Open
We address the problem of planning a path for a ground robot through unknown terrain, using observations from a flying robot. In search and rescue missions, which are our target scenarios, the time from arrival at the disaster site to the …
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A Location-Aware Waypoint-Based Routing Protocol for Airborne DTNs in Search and Rescue Scenarios Open
In this paper, we propose GeoSaW, a delay-tolerant routing protocol for Airborne Networks in Search and Rescue scenarios. The protocol exploits the geographical information of UAVs to make appropriate message forwarding decisions. More pre…