An Autonomous Multi-UAV System for Search and Rescue

By Jurgen Scherer, S. Yahyanejad, Samira Hayat, Evsen Yanmaz, Torsten Andre, Asif Khan, V. Vukadinovic, Christian Bettstetter, H. Hellwagner, B. Rinner. DroNet@MobiSys, 2015

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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A Fully-Autonomous Aerial Robot for Search and Rescue Applications in Indoor Environments using Learning-Based Techniques (2018, background): “In [46], Scherer et al. tested another interesting modular architecture of a UAV system for SAR missions in an outdoor environment.”
Drone networks: Communications, coordination, and sensing (2018, methodology): “In addition to our theoretical analysis of coordination algorithms in [22], we have also implemented and demonstrated autonomous coordination for the SAR use case, which is presented in the next section [18].”
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Search and Rescue: A Survey (2023, background): “The paper [24] introduced a modular architecture automatic multi-UAV system with distributed communication structure for SAR.”
Where2comm: Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception via Spatial Confidence Maps (2022, methodology): “Related methods and systems are desperately needed in a broad range of real-world applications, such as vehicle-to-everything-communication-aided autonomous driving [1–3], multi-robot warehouse automation system [4, 5] and multi-UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) for search and rescue [6–8].”
Towards Federated Learning in UAV-Enabled Internet of Vehicles: A Multi-Dimensional Contract-Matching Approach (2020, background): “Another group of studies propose speciﬁc applications of UAVs, e.g., as ﬂying base stations [32], with mobile cloudlets for computation ofﬂoading [33], and for search and rescue missions [34].”
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges (2018, unknown): “These links must be low-latency, highly reliable, and secure two-way communications, usually with low data rate requirement for safety-critical information exchange among UAVs, and additionally between the UAV and ground control stations (GCS).”
UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges (2020, methodology): “By using alternating algorithms, the computation rate maximization problems are addressed both by binary and partial computation ofﬂoading modes.”