Automating humanitarian missions with a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles

Mosterman, Pieter J.; Sanabria, David Escobar; Bilgin, Enes; Zhang, Kun; Zander, Justyna

doi:10.1016/j.arcontrol.2014.09.008

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“…Even though researchers have highlighted the potential use case scenarios of UGVs in a complex environment, not many researchers have talked about exploring the potential of these advanced vehicles in humanitarian settings. However, after an extensive literature search, we managed to find a hand full of researchers like Mosterman et al (2014), Ivancevic and Yue (2016), Desaulniers et al (2013) and Seitz (2015) who have tried to highlight the potential of using UGVs alongside UAVs in humanitarian operations.…”

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Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain

Azmat

Kummer

2020

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The present decade has seen an upsurge in the research on the applications of autonomous vehicles and drones to present innovative and sustainable solutions for traditional transportation and logistical challenges. Similarly, in this study, we propose using autonomous cars and drones to resolve conventional logistics and transport challenges faced by international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) during a relief operation. We do so by identifying, shortlisting, and elaborating critical success factors or key transport and logistics challenges from the existing humanitarian literature and present a conceptual model to mitigate these challenges by integrating unmanned ground (UGVs) and aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the humanitarian supply chain. To understand how this novel idea of using UGVs and UAVs could help IHOs, we drafted three research questions, first focusing on the identification of existing challenges, second concentrating on remediation of these challenges, and the third to understand realization timeline for UGVs and UAVs. This lead to the development of a semi-structured, open-ended questionnaire to record the respondents' perspectives on the existing challenges and their potential solutions. We gathered data form, ten interviewees, with substantial experience in the humanitarian sector from six IHOs stationed in Pakistan and Austria. In light of the feedback for the second research question, we present a conceptual model of integrating UAVs and UGVs in the relief chain. The results of the study indicate that technological advancement in mobility withholds the potential to mitigate the existing challenges faced by IHOs. However, IHOs tend to be reluctant in adapting UGVs compared to UAVs. The results also indicate that the adaptation of these technologies is subject to their technical maturity, and there are no significant differences in opinions found between the IHOs from Pakistan and Austria.

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Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain

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2020

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“…That is, following the knowledge that can be retrieved from the computational space, the doers and makers may be given the tools to act and improve field operations whenever such an improvement is required and desired. Capitalizing on the existing and broadly-used platforms such as Google Earth allows for a high-level understanding of the realistic scenarios as illustrated in previous work [6] [8]. Communication between the stakeholders becomes more efficient.…”

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“…In particular, CPS and IoT advances are briefly discussed in this section. A prototypical CPS implementation in the form of a Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) [6][7] [8] is introduced in the following two sections. First, the architecture of the system and the underlying software is discussed.…”

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Cyber-physical Systems can Make Emergency Response Smart

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A Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) prototype was built in the context of the SmartAmerica Challenge 2013-2014, a United States government initiative. SERS was created by a team of nine organizations led by MathWorks. SERS team member organizations include: BluHaptics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MathWorks, National Instruments, North Carolina State University, The Boeing Company, University of North Texas, University of Washington, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The project was featured at the White House in June 2014 and described by Todd Park (U.S. Chief Technology Officer) as an exemplary achievement. The SmartAmerica initiative challenged participants to build cyber-physical systems as a glimpse of the future to save lives, create jobs, foster businesses, and improve the economy. The SERS prototype primarily concentrated on saving lives. ContextThe paradigms of cyber-physical systems (CPS) [1][2], industrial internet [3][4][5], Industry 4.0, and the notion of Internet of Things (IoT) [1][2] create an opportunity to look at hardware and software as modalities collaborating through the power of computation. This paper takes on this challenging vision and explores a concrete example applicable in emergency response. In particular, CPS and IoT advances are briefly discussed in this section. A prototypical CPS implementation in the form of a Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) [6][7][8] is

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“…SERS serves as an example to highlight some of the key challenges and issues in successfully bringing systems of collaborating systems online. Figure 4 shows the architecture of SERS [19]. At the core of SERS is Mission Command & Control.…”

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Motivating Use Cases for the Globalization of DSLs

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Degueule

Atkinson

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Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages

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Abstract. The development of complex software-intensive systems involves many stakeholders who contribute their expertise on specific aspects of the system under construction. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are typically used by stakeholders to express their knowledge of the system using dedicated tools and abstractions. In this chapter, we explore different scenarios that lead to the globalization of DSLs through two motivating case studies -a command and control wind tunnel and a smart emergency response system -and outline the concrete engineering challenges they raise. Finally, we list some of the general research challenges related to the globalization of DSMLs and discuss some promising approaches for addressing them.

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Automating humanitarian missions with a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain

Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain

Cyber-physical Systems can Make Emergency Response Smart

Motivating Use Cases for the Globalization of DSLs

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