Uncontrolled wildfires pose a severe threat to federally protected areas, wildlife, and any nearby buildings. Despite the brave work done by our first responders, they cannot always reach the areas affected. Wind conditions can quickly engulf areas with fire, sometimes the terrain is unsuitable to navigate, and these are just some of the issues firefighters face while trying to contain fires. H...

Abstract This paper presents an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platform used for the competition held at International Conference Aircraft Systems 2022 (ICUAS’22). The envisioned scenario in is delivering extinguishing ball to a fire with UAV. Driven on that thought, qualifying round of organized realistic simulation environment. competitors are required navigate through cluttered environment in...

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In this study, thermal runaway propagation characteristics and measures to prevent phenomenon were analyzed by applying abnormal conditions pouch-type lithium-ion batteries. Experiments conducted in a 1.5 m × experimental chamber. During the experiment, batteries grouped according capacity, quantity, use of fire extinguishing agents. showed that when occurred cell, it propagated adjacent cell a...