Design and Implementation of Fire Extinguishing Ball Thrower Quadcopter

Barua, Sourav; Tanjim, Meer Shadman Shafkat; Oishi, Ashrafun Nushra; Das, Sudeb Chandra; Basar, Md. Abul; Rafi, Shoyeb Ahammad

doi:10.1109/tensymp50017.2020.9230808

Cited by 9 publications

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“…Researchers have extensively investigated the use of drones for searching and rescuing victims [4,27,54]. In addition to surveying vast or perilous areas, drones also find applications in firefighting for extinguishing fires [7,8] and improving communication signals [49].…”

Section: Drones In Emergency Firefighting Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

Firefighters' Perceptions on Collaboration and Interaction with Autonomous Drones: Results of a Field Trial

Li,

Katsiuba,

Dolata

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Applications of drones in emergency response, like firefighting, have been promoted in the past decade. As the autonomy of drones continues to improve, the ways in which they are integrated into firefighting teams and their impact on crews are changing. This demands more understanding of how firefighters perceive and interact with autonomous drones. This paper presents a drone-based system for emergency operations with which firefighters can interact through sound, lights, and a graphical user interface. We use interviews with stakeholders collected in two field trials to explore their perceptions of the interaction and collaboration with drones. Our result shows that firefighters perceived visual interaction as adequate. However, for audio instructions and interfaces, information overload emerges as an essential problem. The potential impact of drones on current work configurations may involve shifting the position of humans closer to supervisory decision-makers and changing the training structure and content.

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Section: Drones In Emergency Firefighting Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

Firefighters' Perceptions on Collaboration and Interaction with Autonomous Drones: Results of a Field Trial

Li,

Katsiuba,

Dolata

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…The experiments in Aydin et al (2019) show that smaller sized fire extinguishing balls might be effective in extinguishing short grass fires (i.e., a ~0.5 kg ball effectively extinguished a circle of 1‐m of short grass). This fire extinguishing potential of ball dispersing drones has been well‐recognised, and many systems are currently being developed and tested (Bailon‐Ruiz & Lacroix, 2020; Barua et al, 2020; Innocente & Grasso, 2019). We will likely have a much clearer picture of the effectiveness of drones to help extinguish wildfires in the coming years.…”

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confidence: 99%

Existing and emerging uses of drones in restoration ecology

et al. 2022

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To address the enormous task of restoring the world's degraded ecosystems, 2021 to 2030 was recently heralded as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (United Nations, 2020). In the absence of scalable interventions, it is expected that by 2050, 95% of Earth's land, up to 90% of coral reefs, and many other habitats will be affected by degradation (Foo & Asner, 2019;Yu et al., 2020). Against this backdrop of ecological crisis, practitioners must draw upon the most effective tools available to ensure large-scale restoration objectives are successful.

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