First Report of Using Portable Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drones) for Search and Rescue

SAR.Drones: Drones for Advanced Search and Rescue Missions

This paper presents our framework based on visual exploration of disaster areas (i.e. after an earthquake, a tsunami or an industrial accident). It is meant to help rescue teams to locate hotspots (i.e. half-buried person or broken and dangerous canalization) and to maintain an Internet connection for them. Indeed, our solution uses several small autonomous drones (or UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Vehi...

Multimodal Interaction with Co-located Drones for Search and Rescue

We present a multimodal interaction framework that allows a human operator to interact with co-located drones during search and rescue missions. In contrast with usual human-multidrones interaction scenarios, in this case the operator is not fully dedicated to the control of the robots, but directly involved in search and rescue tasks, hence only able to provide fast, although high-value, instr...

ICARUS: Providing Unmanned Search and Rescue Tools

The ICARUS EU-FP7 project deals with the development of a set of integrated components to assist search and rescue teams in dealing with the difficult and dangerous, but life-saving task of finding human survivors. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground and sea vehicles, equipped with victim detection sensors. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communic...

Small Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (drones)

Embedded Reasoning for Atmospheric Science Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems

The ability to understand and predict the dynamic behavior of our planet’s environment over multiple spatial and time scales remains an outstanding challenge for science and engineering (National Research Council 2007). For the past 35+ years, sensors on spaceborne platforms have increasingly surveilled most of the Earths surface and atmosphere. However, a summary of US severe weather data over...